Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel L.]

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE) [SIGNED]

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, Early Issue. Octavo, 366 pages; VG; spine dark green with yellow lettering and a yellow box with black lettering, bound in publishers decorated green cloth; some mild bumping and shelfwear;

Two BAL early issue points present: Copyright notice dated 1884, title page 1885, and on page 161 the signature mark 11 is absent. Modern scholarship has shown that there were only 3 substantive changes, occurring on pages 9, 13, and 57, with this copy having all in the corrected second state.;

Half-title with clipped signature of Twain tipped in, reading "Yrs Truly / Sammuel L. Clemens / Mark Twain";

CX consignment; shelved case 3.

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