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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description
- printed book
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) … By Mark Twain. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 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; slightest rubbing at extremities. Half green morocco slipcase, chemise.
In 8s (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 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; slightest rubbing at extremities. Half green morocco slipcase, chemise.
Provenance
Nick Karanovich (sale, Sotheby’s New York, 19 June 2003, lot 59)
Literature
Lilly/Karanovich 95; BAL 3415; Grolier, American 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50
Catalogue Note
A splendid, very bright copy of the first American edition, early state, with BAL points: page [13], state 1; page 57, state 1; page 155, state 1; page 283, state 3.