TWAIN, MARK.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade).

New York Charles L. Webster and Company 1885 Square octavo. 366 pp. First American edition, early state, in the scarce blue cloth publisher's binding. The following BAL issue points apply: pages 13 and 57 are first state, page 155 is third state, page 283 is third state. With 173 illustrations by E.W. Kemble and photogravure frontispiece portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt, which is second state. Huck Finn is indisputably Twain's greatest novel and one of the most important works of American literature. T.S. Eliot wrote, "We come to see Huck as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction," and Hemingway once said that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain." Small closed tears to bottom margins of first two blanks and Illustrations leaf (page 13); small stains to a few leaves, not affecting the text; minor toning to spine. All in all a fine copy in a remarkably fresh and bright example of the uncommon blue binding. Housed in a blue cloth chemise and leather-backed cloth slipcase, which shows some general wear and toning. (BAL 3415; Grolier-American 87).

• USD 35,000.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 21997

• bookseller: Bromer Booksellers Inc. (USA)