(CLEMENS, SAMUEL) TWAIN, MARK. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Boston, 1885. First US edition, early issue.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). Boston: Charles L. Webster, 1885.8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black to upper boards and spine, cream endpapers. First American edition, early issue, with title page a cancel and the following first issue points: "Him and another Man" is listed at p. 88, "with the was" to p. 57 eleven lines from the bottom, final leaf blank, frontispiece with "Heliotype Printing Co." and visible table cloth. Also, "Huck Decided" instead of "Huck Decides" under "Chapter VI" on p. [9], a first issue point per MacDonnell (Firsts, p. 31). Rubbing to boards; ends bumped; bookplate tipped to front pastedown.
Literature:
BAL 3415. Kevin MacDonnell in Firsts, September 1998 - Vol. 8, No. 9, "Huck Finn, Among the Issue Mongers," pp. 29- 35.
