CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)... New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt- and black-lettered, light rubbing to covers, spine ends and edges; upper hinge cracked. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" on page 57, line 23; the "Him and another Man" plate listed in the list of illustrations as being on page 88; state 1 (2?) of the pagination on page 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of page 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 2 of the title-leaf (a cancel); state 2 of the portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.

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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)... New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Illustrations by E.W. Kemble. 4to, original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt- and black-lettered, light rubbing to covers, spine ends and edges; upper hinge cracked. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with early issue points: "was" for "saw" on page 57, line 23; the "Him and another Man" plate listed in the list of illustrations as being on page 88; state 1 (2?) of the pagination on page 155 with the final "5" lacking; state 3 of page 283 (the leaf a cancel); state 2 of the title-leaf (a cancel); state 2 of the portrait frontispiece; final leaf blank. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-76.

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