[Rarebooks] FS: First British 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 British Edition. 
Decorated red cloth. 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. Typical sunning to spine 
with mild fraying to head and neat cloth repair to heel. Minor spotting 
to covers. Near Fine. (#012856)        $2,000

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