Books and Manuscripts

Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, first printing (meeting all points per BAL, except those on pp. 161 and 283, as usual). 8vo. 366 pp. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble, and with a photogravure portrait frontispiece (BAL state 1). Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in black and in gilt, slight wear at edges and top and tail of spine, boards lightly rubbed, minor staining on rear board; fake Twain autograph mounted below half-title; scattered spotting to text; chipping along fore-edge, pp. 217-220; rear hinge likely reinforced; in modern quarter dark green morocco slip case and chemise. BAL 3415; Grolier, American 87

First edition, first printing, of Twain's enduring classic.