The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
CLEMENS, Samuel L. (Mark Twain).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
p. 283 is a cancel
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
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Item Number: 2849
First edition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth with pale peach endpapers. A near fine copy with some minor rubbing to the spine tips. With the following BAL points for the first edition: The title leaf is a cancel with an 1884 copyright, The frontispiece in second state, Him and another man listed at p.88, p.57 printed “with the was”, p. 283 is a cancel, and p.155 in 3rd state. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very sharp copy of this literary highspot.
Ernest Hemingway once declared about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since."
