[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN

[Charles Agvent]

                   TWAIN,   Mark  [CLEMENS,  Samuel].    ADVENTURES  OF
          HUCKLEBERRY   FINN.  (TOM  SAWYER'S   COMRADE).  SCENE:   THE
          MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO. New York:
          Charles  L.  Webster & Company 1885. First Edition.  Original
          decorated  green  cloth.  With  174 illustrations  by  E.  W.
          Kemble.  BAL  3415: With first issue points of pages 13,  57,
          and 143;  second issue of title page, frontispiece, and  page
          155; and  fourth issue of page 283. Also with McBride's first
          issue point    on   page  143.   Recent   Twain   scholarship
          convincingly  establishes  three  changes from  the  printing
          plates  of  the  first printing of 30,000  copies  and  later
          printings:  1)  an erroneous page reference "88" on  page  13
          later changed  to "87" (BAL's point 2); 2) the misprint "with
          the was"  on page 57 later corrected to "with the saw" (BAL's
          point 3);  and  3)  the misprint "Decided" on  page  9  later
          changed  to  "Decides" (not noted by BAL). This copy has  all
          three first printing points.  Nineteenth century  pink  paper
          bookplate  on  the front pastedown with the word  "Wing"  and
          the number  "1783." Hinges fine; some rubbing to gilt on  the
          spine and  a  little to the cloth, mostly to the rear  cover.
          Contents  lightly  foxed.  Light  wear   to  spine  tips  and
          corners. Very Good or better.                        $7500.00

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