[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
Chatto & Windus London 1884.  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 the 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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