CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835–1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
8vo (210 x 159 mm). (Without blanks). Half–title, lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue–guard, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), in–text illustrations throughout. Full green morocco twice ruled in gilt, upper cover with various color morocco inlays depicting Huck Finn within gilt frame, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt–lettering and framing in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt turn–ins, gilt stamp–signed by BayNtun–Riviere; original cloth bound in at end; folding box.
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); first state portrait frontispiece; first state of p. 9 with “decided” for “decides”; 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”; BAL first state of pagination on p. 155. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; MacDonnell, Firsts, Vol. 8, No. 7/8, p. 31.