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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE)
by Twain, Mark (pseud. of Samuel Langhorn Clemens)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American Edition. Later state of the text, with the following points corrected: cancel title leaf with copyright page dated 1884, p.9 with "Decides," p.13 with the illustration "Him and Another Man" listed on p.87, "with the saw" on p.57, p.283 with straight fly on cancel leaf, p.155 with the final '5' slightly larger, signature mark lacking on p.161, leaf 238 present as final blank, and frontispiece without the tablecloth present and Photo-Gravure Company imprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's original green cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; [9],10-366,[4]pp; illus. Wear to spine ends (especially at heel), some rubbing to corners and lower board edges, a few scuffs and a very faint stain to rear cover, with some rubbing to text edges; a few faint spots of finger-soil to margins, else text is pretty clean; hinges sound; unrepaired, Very Good or better. A pleasing copy of Twain's most enduring work - the quintessential American novel. BAL 3415.
Synopsis
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, rafting their way to freedom.
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- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6969
- Title
- ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE)
- Author
- Twain, Mark (pseud. of Samuel Langhorn Clemens)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- NOEBAY
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