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Lot 137
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
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$625
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Lot Description
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
8vo (214 x 164 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 2), illustrations in text. Contemporary sheep gilt (rebacked preserving portion of original binding; rubbing to extremities).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf is either in the second or third state; the portrait frontispiece is 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"; second state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 238. BAL 3415; Johnson, p. 43-50.