[Rarebooks] FS: True First Edition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, 1884

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY  FINN
(TOM  SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO
FIFTY  YEARS  AGO.  London: Chatto & Windus 1884. First  Edition.  The
First  English Edition, preceding the American edition by four months.
With  174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble. BAL 3414: Sequence B with  the
gatherings  saddle-stitched with wire staples as opposed to sewn.  BAL
assigns  no priority to the sequences. With the publisher's  catalogue
insert  at  rear  dated  October  1884, per BAL.  One  leaf  from  the
catalogue  (pages  11-12) has been removed. Two text pages  have  been
roughly  opened  resulting in a clean tear through the  bottom  corner
with  no loss of one and the loss of a page number and a few words  of
the  running head to the other. Slight sunning to spine with very mild
fraying to spine tips. A bright, Very Good copy.              $1750.00


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