TWAIN, Mark

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion)

First American edition (English edition preceded by a year). Green cloth gilt (also issued in blue). First issue. Points as follows: page [9] with "Decided" uncorrected; page [13] illustration captioned "Him and another Man" listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads "with the was." The other disputed points as follows: frontispiece does not show drapery under the bust and bears the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company; copyright page dated 1884; page 143 with "l" missing from "Col." at top line, with broken "b" in "body" of line 7; page 155 without final "5"; page 161, no signature mark "11"; leaf of pages 283-284 is a cancel (illustration with straight fly). Bookplate of Twain scholar John C. Gerber, co-editor of the University of California variorum editions of Tom Sawyer, slight rubbing and edgewear, one signature slightly sprung, a very near fine, and bright, superlative unrestored copy, with the cloth unworn, the hinges tight and unbroken, and the gilt bright and unrubbed. Housed in a green quarter morocco clamshell box. One of the most beloved and regarded novels of American literature, Twain's masterpiece and one of the indisputable candidates for the Great American Novel. Johnson Highspot of American Literature, Peter Parley to Penrod, BAL 3415.

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