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Seller Description: Near Fine. A solid, Nearly Fine copy of the book, with no repairs or restoration. Spine gilt a bit dulled and slight rubbing at the spine ends and corners. Cloth generally fresh and bright and in excellent condition internally. Contemporary gift inscription on the front paste-down dated "May 18, 1885." With all three generally accepted first printing points and the frontis bust of Twain in the first state. A copy in Fine condition made $52, 920 at Christies in 2023. Housed in custom quarter ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. First edition, first issue with one page of publisher's preliminary ad leaf facing the title page and unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. Bound in publisher's original pebbled red cloth with beveled edges, titles in gilt on upper board and spine, with frog stamped in gilt on the lower left corner of the upper board and in blind on the lower board. Very Good or better with shallow chipping to spine ends, soiling to cloth. Superficial crack with a possible glue repair to front ... See More Details

Seller Description: Kemble, E.W. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Includes illustrations. 174 Illustrations Green cloth binding, with gold leaf accents on cover. Excellent condition. Very light shelf wear. Frontispiece: Photo gravure of Samuel Clemens' bust by Karl Gerhardt See More Details

Seller Description: Two pages with professional repairs to tears; hinges unbroken and covers tight. Light edgewear with some rubbing and wear to the spine. Easily Very Good. FIRST PRINTING on wove paper and with half-title and frontispiece with blank versos and with "THE" on the half-title page in 10-point rather than 14-point type. Original blue cloth with peach endpapers with front and rear triple flyleaves of laid paper; four pages of ads at the rear. BAL 3369. MacDonnell, 39-40. Illustrated by True Williams ... See More Details

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Seller Description: Very Good. 2nd Printing. First edition, second printing with textual errors corrected. Rebound in dark brown three quarter leather with brown pebble design marbled paper five raised bands edge wear. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, first issue of Twain's masterpiece, one of approximately 500 copies bound in publisher's three-quarters morocco binding. Octavo, original three-quarters brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. Lithographic frontispiece and with 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt. Copies of Huckleberry Finn in the original publisher's leather bindings are quite rare: "The relative rarity ... See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, first issue of Twain's masterpiece, one of approximately 500 copies bound in publisher's three-quarters morocco binding. Octavo, original three-quarters brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. Lithographic frontispiece and with 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt. Copies of Huckleberry Finn in the original publisher's leather bindings are quite rare: "The relative rarity ... See More Details

Seller Description: 6.75 x 4.5, 198 pp, vg, pencil notes on back of adv page else FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE IN FULL CRUSHED BROWN MOROCCO, GILT STAMPED SPINE, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED END PAPERS. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A beautiful copy. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good. 1st Printing. Original publishers brown cloth with black titles and bright gilt design front hinge starting book plate darkening on gutter pages 408-409. "The St. Charles Hotel" on page 443 caption, without the illustration of Mark Twain's head in flames on page 441. See More Details

Seller Description: The Definitive edition, one of 1024 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive edition and signed 1024 single leaves in 1906 in anticipation of this edition. Octavo, 37 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine over marbled boards, each volume illustrated with frontispiece and plates. In very good condition. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine. 174 Illustrations by E.W. Kemble & photogravure portrait bust by Karl Gebhardt. 8vo, handsomely rebound in dark green morocco with the entire original front cloth cover pictorially stamped in black & gilt inset. New York: Charles Webster, 1885. First Edition. The text block is clean, with occasional small brown-stains. See More Details

Seller Description: Written over an eight-year period, Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was controversial from the outset, attacked by critics for its crudeness, coarseness and vulgarity. Upon issue of the American edition in 1885, several libraries, including the Concord and Brooklyn Public Libraries, banned it from their shelves. Twain later remarked to his editor, "Apparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as 'trash and only suitable for the slums. ' This will sell us another twenty-five thousand ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good + A Very Good+ copy of the book. Spine gilt a bit dulled and some wear at the spine ends and corners. Cloth a bit rubbed. Generally clean internally. With all three generally accepted first printing points. Frontis bust of Twain in the first state. An attractive copy overall. Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he flees his own abusive father and aids Jim in his escape from slavery, Twain's novel has been praised for its "distinctly American voice, " putting at its ... See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, first printing, mixed state of the apotheosis of American boyhood. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt topstain. In near fine condition with half-title and frontispiece on the same leaf, with 1875 on the copyright page and 1876 on the title page, and with the 10-point type to the word "THE" on the half-title page, four page publishers advertisements at end. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell chemise and box. See More Details

Seller Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. The Adventures of HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain. First Edition, First Printing, First Issue, First State w/13 "first" points. Very Good+ to Near Fine. A Genuine American Treasure. Ernest Hemingway said: All modern literature comes from one book (Huckleberry Finn) by Mark Twain. It s the best book we ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since. Written over an eight-year period, Adventures of ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good in boards. Owner hole punched stamp on title page, small printed stamp on CP. Bottom corners bumped. Rare First edition, with the following first issue points: 1869 date on both the title and copyright page, a double frontispiece; the last entry of the table of contents reads "Thankless Devotion-A Newspaper Valedictory" at page xviii; "Chapter XLI" on page 643; text ends on page 651; 4 pages of ads at the end. Page numbers present in the table of contents at pages xvii-xviii; & the ... See More Details

Seller Description: Foxing to fore-edge and preliminaries; some moderate use to cloth at the top and bottom of the spine; a very good copy with the gold decoration in attractive condition. 366 pp. 8vo, BAL 3415. Laid in is a 12mo leaf, signed "Truly Yours / Mark Twain [paraph]" See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. A professionally restored and rebound First American Edition from the very limited sheep skin covered first print run. This copy, meticulously rebound in a copy of the original boards (also included as verification of the book's original state), with finish matching the original and with red and black morocco spinal labels. Water stain to the lower inside corner along bottom edge, of the first 75 pages, about 3 inches by 1 inch at front, diminishing as ... See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of Twain's masterpiece, with the first state of the frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original publisher's decorated green cloth gilt to the spine and front panel. With frontispiece portrait of Twain inserted at front (with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co., but the cloth is not visible). This example exhibits the following issue points: title leaf is conjugate. Copyright notice dated 1884; the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" [p.13] listed as p.88 (first state); ... See More Details

Seller Description: Kemble, E.W. Very good in very good dust jacket. Includes illustrations. 174 Illustrations First Edition. Very good condition. Very light shelf wear at the top of the spine. No markings on any pages. (Note: Signature on the frontispiece is printed, not autographed. ) See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. First edition, second printing, BAL issue A, printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in black and gilt; all edges gilt. Contents on verso of preface, with the following mispagination present: p. [IX] mispaged XII; p. [X] mispaged XIII; p. [XII] mispaged XVI. Near Fine with light fraying to cloth at corner and spine ends, spine darkened. Front and rear inner hinges slightly exposed, owner name and small bookplate to front endsheet. Pages toned. A fantastic ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. True first edition, preceding the US edition by approximately four months. A Nearly Fine copy in the original red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Slight fading to the spine, short tear to the contents (leaf xiii-xiv) professionally repaired, otherwise an excellent copy overall. With the correct, first issue ads, dated October 1884. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he flees his own abusive father and aids Jim in his escape from ... See More Details