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Lot 219
Sale 5670 - Fine Books
Sep 29, 2005
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
800
Price Realized
$1,000
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Clemens, Samuel L.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn... by Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First edition. 8vo, orig. pictorial green cloth, gilt; corners bumped, spine ends frayed, other light to moderate edge wear, joints slightly scuffed, front hinge broken. Portrait, frontis., text illus. Occasional minor smudging, pp. 15/16 loose & slightly chipped along fore-edge, fore edge of rear free endpaper chipped.
With many BAL early state points: p. (13), "Him and another man" is listed as at p. 88; p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads:... "with the was"; p. "155," with the final 5 lacking, leaf 23 8 excised, 1st state of portrait, title page & p. 283 cancels.
BAL 3415