LOT 11 CLEMENS (SAMUEL LANGHORNE) 'MARK TWAIN' Adventures of Huckle...
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CLEMENS (SAMUEL LANGHORNE) 'MARK TWAIN' Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, New York, Charles J. Webster, and Co., 1885CLEMENS (SAMUEL LANGHORNE) 'MARK TWAIN'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the final blank, lithographed frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait of the bust of Twain by Karl Gerhardt, numerous illustrations in the text, with final blank, occasional light spotting or soiling (mostly in the margins), publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gold and black, slightly rubbed at extremities, preserved in morocco-backed solander box by Asprey [BAL 3415], 4to, New York, Charles J. Webster, and Co., 1885FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE CELEBRATED WORKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. A very good copy in the original cloth, and an early issue with the following points: first state of the frontispiece; "was" for "saw" on page 57; the list of illustrations showing "him and another Man" as appearing on page 88; the title a cancel with the copyright 1884; page 283 a cancel with the final blank.Provenance: Mrs O.B. Abbott, Oriskany Falls, New York, light pencil inscription on the front free endpaper; Christie's, 13 June 2012, lot 171.
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