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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. 8vo. Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue–guard, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 2), in–text illustrations throughout. Original publisher’s green gilt–decorated pictorial cloth (extreme ends and corners rubbed, some splitting to front joint near head, front hinge cracked). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, EARLY STATE, with the following issue points: the title leaf is either in the second or third state (first state only noted in the prospectus; no copy has ever been seen or reported); second state portrait frontispiece; first state of p. 13 with "Him and Another Man" plate incorrectly listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with "was" for “saw”; second state of pagination on p. 155; with final blank 23–8. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50.