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$800 - 1,200
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$4,000
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 8vo (214 x 163). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); cloth folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, mixed state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the third state; the frontispiece is in the third state; second state of p. 57 with "saw"; second state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 88; third state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 23/8. A FINE BRIGHT COPY. BAL 3415; Johnson, p. 43-50.

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