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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (\"Mark Twain\") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 
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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 

Square 8vo (212 x 165 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), illustrations in text. Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (lower hinge separating, minor wear to spine ends and corners). Provenance: Jed (gift note from E.W.S.,1922, tipped in).
 
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the third state; the frontispiece in the third state; second state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate listed as being on p. 87; second state of p. 57 with "saw"; third state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson, p.43-50.