First edition, first printing of the highly respected boy adventure novel.
Very good.
Price: $5,500.00
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
The longtime perennial classic, whose lasting and continuing influence can be seen in writer Percival Everett's recent Pulitzer-winning novel, JAMES.
Read more: McBride, Mark Twain: A Bibliography, 103; Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), 3415; MacDonnell, "Huck Finn Among the Issue Mongers," in Firsts Magazine.
New York: Charles Webster, 1885 [1884]. 8.5'' x 6.75''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Pale peach endpapers. "Decided" on page [9]; "Him and another Man" listed as on page 88; "with the was" on page 57, 11th line from the bottom (ref. BAL). Illustrated by E.W. Kemble throughout in black and white. 366 pages. Light wear to extremities, a couple spots of soil. Edges and endpapers foxed, with some intermittent foxing thereafter; narrow tide mark along fore-edge around chapters 17-25. Hinges strong. Shows well.
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