TWAIN, Mark.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)... First US edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publishers to Daniel Whitford, Twain's lawyer: "To Daniel Whitford, with regards of the publisher, Chas. L. Webster. New York, February 21st, 1885."Daniel Whitford, attorney for New York firm Alexander & Green, acted for Webster & Company and was also retained by Twain several times. He acted for Twain in the highly publicized lawsuit over the dramatization of the Prince and the Pauper by Abby Sage Richardson. In 1890, Twain and the producer, Daniel Frohman, were sued by Edward H. House, who claimed that Richardson's adaptation was plagiarized from House's dramatization of the novel, written for Twain years before. Frohman paid House from Twain's royalties to prevent the closure of the play; in turn, Twain sued Frohman for his royalties (amounting to five or six thousand dollars) in 1894.Much bibliographical confusion has been generated by Huckleberry Finn. In fact, only three substantive changes were introduced after the first printing: at p. 13 the erroneous page reference "88" was changed to "87"; at p. 57 the misprint "with the was" was corrected to "with the saw"; and at p. 9 the misprint "Decided" was corrected to "Decides". This copy has all these in first state. The frontispiece was printed separately, inserted at random, and has no relation to the order of the printed sheets. At some stage it was realised that the Uncle Silas illustration on page 283 had bee

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