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Lot 110
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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$5,000 -
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$3,438
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Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
Square 8vo (215 x 164 mm). Half-title, lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), numerous illustrations. (Some minor spotting and staining.) Original green pictorial cloth gilt, stamped in black (front hinge loose, some slight wear to extremities); folding case.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early issue, with the following issue points: the frontispiece in the first state; the title leaf in the second state; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with “was”; third state of p. 155; third state of p. 283; with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
This lot is located in Chicago.