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  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF MARK TWAIN'S ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

  TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

  New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

  First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece with all of the agreed upon first issue points and including the extraordinary "bulging fly" illustration. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarter brown morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, patterned endpapers, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Kemble. Copies of Huckleberry Finn were assembled haphazardly by the printer and there has yet to be agreement among bibliographers as to the priority of many points. This copy has all of the commonly identified first state points, including the rare "curved fly" illustration, found only in prospectuses and a small number of publisher's leather-bound copies. In the mischievous tradition of graffitti, he made "what was originally a pleasant scene... into a flagrant case of indecent exposure" (Kaplan 263). The sabotage was discovered while the book was at press and the offending plate was replaced, the corrected plate being slightly altered. BAL 3415. McBride, 93. Grolier American 100: 87. MacDonnell, 31. Page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was,” instead of “with the saw.” Other points of bibliographic...

  Price: $6,200.00     Item Number: 150973

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