From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 19 August 1998
About this Item
First edition. With 174 black and white illustrations by E.W. Kemble. 8vo, publisher s original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spine. 366 pp. A very handsome copy, bright and appealing. This copy is clean and tight and very pleasing internally, the paper extremely fresh. The cloth is uncommonly bright and the gilt in really excellent condition. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A HANDSOME AND PLEASING COPY. The title-leaf is conjugate with [1] and the copyright notice is dated 1884; p. [13] with the illustration captioned "Him and another Man listed at p. 87; p. 57 with "saw" spelled correctly; p. 283 with the corrected engraving and conjugate with leaf 18(3); p. 155 has the final five replaced; p. 161 is lacking a signature mark, as usual; and leaf 23(8) has been excised. The frontis portrait is in Blanck's state 3, with the imprint of the Photo-Gravure Company and with the tablecloth or scarf not visible. The printing points mentioned above should not be considered issue points, as the sheets for the book were printed over time, but gathered and bound at random. Based on issue points only (the state of the illustration on p. 283 and the binding), this is a first edition. Along with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is considered the stepping stone to modern American literature. And along with Tom Sawyer, for the first time, the hero of the novel was a boy. These books are landmarks and Hemingway often offered his opinion that the modern novel would have been impossible without them. With Whitman s Leaves of Grass and Melville s Moby Dick, they provide us with a view of America transcending its past and beginning its future. Seller Inventory # 33083
Bibliographic Details
Title: ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Publisher: New York Charles L. Webster and Company 1885
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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