Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | Virtually flawless copy of Huckleberry Finn

Property from the Workman Collection

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) … By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885

8vo (216 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and 173 text illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), title-leaf a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884. Publisher's pictorial green cloth, stamped in gilt and black, peach-colored endpapers, plain edges; a very fine, bright copy. Full morocco case. 

First edition, early issue

A superlative copy of an American classic.

REFERENCE:

BAL 3415; Grolier, American 87; Johnson 43–50