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Mark Twain ''Huck Finn'' First Edition

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Mark Twain ''Huck Finn'' First Edition
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First edition of ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain with illustrations by E.W. Kimble. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company: 1885. First edition, first printing of the beloved classic that became the wellspring of American literary fiction. Hemingway once said of it, ''All modern American literature comes from just one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.''' All first edition points present including: (1) title page has 1884 copyright on verso, title page is tipped-in; (2) heading for chapter 6 reads ''decided'' (later corrected to ''decides'') on page 9; (3) ''Him and another man'' listed incorrectly at page 88 (on page 13); (4) page 57, 11 lines from bottom, reads: ''with the was''; (5) tablecloth under the bust of Twain at frontis is visible and ''Heliotype Printing Co.'' imprint is present; (6) on page 155, the second ''5'' is missing; (7) page 143: ''l'' missing in ''Col.'' (that is part of the illustration at the top line of text). Some light rubbing to boards and foxing to endpapers. With some archival restoration to preserve condition, overall a presentable copy in very good condition.