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HUCKLEBERRY FINN Mark Twain 1885 *1ST/1ST/1ST STATE* NR |
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Curent Price | 760.98 USD |
Item # | 270309160321 |
Status | Completed |
Binding | Hardcover |
Printing Year | 1880 |
Category | Literature |
Special Attributes | 1st Edition |
Sub-Category | Fiction |
3rd Level Category | Classics |
End time | 12/7/2008 12:25:51 AM (EST)
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Ships From | Madison, WI |
Category | Books > Antiquarian & Collectible |
"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened." From Mark Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
 
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VERY RARE -- & VERY COLLECTIBLE 1ST ISSUE (ALL POINTS CONFIRMED -- PLEASE SEE ELABORATION BELOW)... OF ONE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE'S ALL-TIME CLASSICS.
** 1ST/1ST/1ST/1885 **
ILLUSTRATED BY E.W. KEMBLE.  ORG'l. PUB. BOARDS. NOT REBOUND.
MARK TWAIN. HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
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Rare 1st state!
1st/1st/1st. First American State (Issue) of First American Printing of First American Edition (ALL POINTS). In ORIGINAL PUBLISHER BOARDS (Green w/elaborate GILT and Black stamped art and blocking); not rebound. Published by Charles Webster and Co. (TWAIN'S
 OWN PUBLISHING CO. -- known for also publishing President Ulysses S. Grant's 2-Volume Memoir): NY. 1885. WITH 174 ILLUSTRATIONS -- including FRONTIS w/Tissue Guard. SOLID, COMPLETE, NICELY-PRESENTING title.
NOTE THAT PIX WITHIN LISTING, ITSELF, ARE
FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY.
OFFERED AT A VERY LOW STARTING BID, AND COMPLETELY WITHOUT RESERVE.
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Beloved and heralded American author, humorist, and lecturer; winner of a worldwide audience (something far less common for an American in Twain's era) for his fine stories, many of youthful adventure -- author of many highly-acclaimed, tremendously popular works: both humorous and enlightening, such as LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI; THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER; A TRAMP ABROAD; etc.,  Hartford (CT) resident and neighbor/friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin, etc.):
MARK TWAIN, pseudonym of Samuel
Langhorne Clemens. 
Generations after THIS book's publication, esteemed Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author ERNEST HEMINGWAY would famously write: "All modern American literature comes from just one book by [author MARK TWAIN] called "Huckleberry Finn." Twain's remarkable novel has been translated into more than 50 languages and has gone through more than 250 American editions and 1,000 foreign editions.
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MARK TWAIN'S HIGHSPOT, CLASSIC WORK -- AND IN SOME WAYS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE:
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE).
Twain's justly acclaimed (on the worldwide stage) comedic novel -- dealing with racial prejudices, among other relevant important issues -- involved the tale, of course, of a long and frequently interrupted voyage down the great Mississippi River. The book's narrator, Huck (a youngster with artless, vernacular speech) has been said by critics as being "admirably adapted to detailed and poetic descriptions of scenes and and narrative renditions, that are both widely hilarious and subtly ironic."
Along with runaway slave, Jim, Huck encounters varied characters and types of all (all!) classes, memorably portrayed on their river journey. Of note: Beyond Huckleberry Finn's wonderful entertainment value, however, the book has a number of meanings, on multiple levels. For example, the natural goodness of Huck is continually contrasted with the effects of the overall corrupt society he finds himself operating in.
A TRUE MASTERPIECE! 
Published: Charles Webster and Co., NY: 1885.
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TRUE 1ST ISSUE of 1ST PRINTING OF 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.
FIRST ISSUE/FIRST STATE POINTS INCLUDE:
[1] Title Page is a cancel;
[2] Title page has year 1884 on verso;
[3] Heading for chapter 6 reads "Decided" (later corrected to "Decides") on page 9;
[4] "Him and another man" listed incorrectly at page 88, on page 12 (SEE SCAN);
[5] Page 57, 11 lines from end, text reads "with the was"
[6] TABLECLOTH under the bust of Twain at frontis is clearly VISIBLE (SEE SCAN), and Heliotype Printing Co. imprint is present;
[7] Signature mark 11 missing on page 161;
[8] Page 283 is a cancel;
[9] Final leaf is blank;
[10] Page 143, the "l" is missing in the "Col" (near the illustration at the top of the text; and,
[11] The "5" in the page number of Page 155 is absent.
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OF NOTE, contemporary scholarly consensus holds that three of these points hereinabove are most critical (some bibliographers go so far as to argue those three points are conclusive, alone, of 1st issue status -- all of which THIS copy has). These three points correspond to the red highlighted nos. 3-5 immediately above.
SOME BRIEF THOUGHTS ON INVESTMENT POTENTIAL (PERHAPS PARTICULRARLY RESONANT GIVEN THE ECONOMY). A 1ST ISSUE OF HUCK FINN in "COLLECTED BOOKS 2002" (Ahearn, author; Putnam, NY: 2003) is valued at seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00); as another example, the BOOK COLLECTOR'S PRICE GUIDE (KP, 2003) values title up to an astounding 21 thousand dollars ($21,000.00). Finally, on the Internet's largest antiquarian and used booksellers database, a large number of copies of this title are listed at 15 thousand-plus (greater than $15,000.00), including some lacking certain 1st issue points inclusive in the copy at auction! We offer these as observations, only; of course, condition is an important factor in antiquarian book value, as is your own research, etc.
 TITLE DETAILS & BOOK CONDITION NOTES: Charles Webster and Co., NY: 1885. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Fully bound -- all publisher original; NOT REBOUND in GREEN cloth covered boards. Pictorially stamped in and lettered in GILT and black on front cover and spine. Photogravure frontispiece portrait bust by Karl Gerhardt. Frontis drawing by KEMBLE... w/ORIGINAL tissue guard. Beige endpapers. 366pp. Light brown topstain. WITH 174 ILLUSTRATIONS by KEMBLE. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 1st State of 1st Printing. Board corners/spine ends rubbed/scuffed; very small (1/8") nick rear spine edge; short tear (1/3") upper spine edge; approx. 1" closed tear lower front gutter; light overall soiling; few sm. puckers to front fabric (see scan); fading/color unevenness (spotting) rear board; unevenness to straightness of entire rear board, itself. Leaves largely in NEAR FINE condition; w/no writing; no tears; no bookplates; etc. Leaves show no visible signs of having been read... and exhibit an uncommon lack of expected foxing. Hinges FINE. Note rear pastedown w/some wrinkling; and rear pastedown/rear blanks w/spotting. Also, a small number of leaves leaves (e.g., pp 96-112) w/random brown spots; select other leaves w/very faint browning near gutter or along upper edge. Book *is* solid; clean, well-preserved; GILT bright; likely unread; leaves and textblock very nice; etc. Ref, e.g., 3415. Johnson, 43-50. MacDonnell, 29-35. McBride, 93. Grolier American 87.
RARE 1st STATE, and IN ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERED GILT BOARDS --
 **1ST/1ST/1ST.** THIS TITLE AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERARY MONUMENT -- IN ITS WAY, THE VERY DEFINITION OF A "CLASSIC."
HUCKLEBERRY FINN. By Mark Twain. 1st Issue: All Points (but for those in publisher proofs). Webster and Co., NY: 1885. Illustrated by Kimble.
LOW OPENING BID; and at auction... WITHOUT RESERVE!
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