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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 (203 x 159 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue–guard, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 3), in–text illustrations throughout. Full modern green niger gilt, raised bands, gilt–titling and centerpieces in compartments, turn–ins gilt, all edges gilt, gilt stamp–signed by Bayntun (spine gently sunned); original publisher’s green gilt–decorated pictorial cloth bound at end. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, later 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); third state portrait frontispiece; second state of p. 13 with “Him and Another Man” plate correctly listed as being on p. 87; second state of p. 57 with “saw”; third state of pagination on p. 155. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; Mac Donnell Firsts, Vol. 8/No. 9, pp. 28–35; McBride, pp. 92–110.