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Book Condition: Used Good
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

United States
About Item: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, early state. Hardcover. Good. 366pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Publisher's green cloth with title and illustration stamped in gilt and black on the front panel and backstrip. Housed in a custom natural beige cloth clamshell. Good. Text block pulling away from the spine. Light rubbing to extremities of boards, more so at corners. Cloth is splitting between the front board and backstrip near the center. Bookseller's old catalog description cut out and pasted to front free endsheet. First edition with all three established printing points: "Huck Decided to Leave" as chapter heading for Chapter VI on the first Contents page, illustration listed as being present on page 88, page 57 has "with the was." Additionally, this copy features the frontispiece illustration by Kemble tipped-in, the frontispiece portrait of Twain's bust produced by the Heliotype Company with cloth shown (Merle Johnson ventures to guess that this is the first state of… Read More
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