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Lot 115
Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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[Literature] Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Reprint of 1896 edition, "new edition from new plates". 8vo. 388, (4) (ads) pp. Inscribed by Clemens on front free endpaper: "Truly Yours/Mark Twain". Illustrated with 24 black and white plates, plate opposite p. 62 worn around edges, presumably reinserted; plus a photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt, variously worn and stained, recased, spine faded; text spotted/soiled in a few places including some foxing on a few plates.