[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. Decorated red 
cloth. 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. (#012855)        $1,750.00

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