$10,980
Boston: Charles L. Webster, 1885. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt and lettered in black to upper boards and spine, pale peach endpapers, blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. Double frontispiece with tissue guard, wood engravings throughout. First American edition, with title page a cancel and the following first issue points: "Him and another Man" is listed at p. 88, "with the was" to p. 57 eleven lines from the bottom, p. 155 with final "5" lacking, final leaf blank, frontispiece with "Heliotype Printing Co." and visible table cloth. Also, "Huck Decided" instead of "Huck Decides" under "Chapter VI" on p. [9], a first issue point per MacDonnell (Firsts, p. 31). Carroll Atwood Wilson copy, with bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Page 283 is a cancel. Minor rubbing to boards; small blemish to upper board; inner hinges cracked slightly; very few scattered spots. Otherwise a very good copy in the scarcer blue cloth. BAL 3415. Kevin MacDonnell in Firsts, September 1998 - Vol. 8, No. 9, "Huck Finn, Among the Issue Mongers," pp. 29- 35
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-08-09
