[Rarebooks] FS: HUCKLEBERRY FINN illustrated and SIGNED by Thomas Hart Benton

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TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. New 
York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in full 
butternut cloth with paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by 
Bernard De Voto who restores the chapter Clemens ripped out of the 
manuscript and inserted into LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Designed by C. P. 
Rollins and illustrated with line and wash drawings by Thomas Hart 
Benton. Copy #485 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. 
Owner ink inscription dated 1947 on the front pastedown. Spine of the 
book is darkened, as typical for this title, with a scrape to the paper 
label affecting a few letters. Very Good in a Very Good slipase the 
bottom edge detached along one seam.         $500.00

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