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Mark Twain ''Huckleberry Finn'' 1st/1st

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Mark Twain ''Huckleberry Finn'' 1st/1st
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First edition, first printing of ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)'' 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 issue points present including: (1) heading for chapter 6 reads ''decided'' (later corrected to ''decides'') on page 9; (2) ''Him and another man'' listed incorrectly with ''88'' on page 13; (3) page 57, 11 lines from bottom, reads ''with the was''; (4) tablecloth under the bust of Twain at frontis is visible and ''Heliotype Printing Co.'' imprint is present; (5) on page 155, the second ''5'' is missing; (6) final leaf is blank; (7) title page is a cancel; (8) page 283 is on a stub. In publisher's full green pictorial cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black. Some light bumping to spine and mild creasing to upper corners of a few pages, not affecting text. Housed in three-quarter calf clamshell case. A near fine copy of this landmark novel with the earliest issue points.