Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

by Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]

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New York: Charles L. Webster Company, 1891. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Kemble, E.W. [Edward Winsor]. Mixed state reprint of BAL 3415, with the following pages appearing in the states listed or with the relevant details indicated: title - 3; p. 13 - 2; p. 57 - 2; p. 155 - 3; p. 161 - no 11; p. 283 - 3; leaf 238 - pasted; frontis - Huck, not portrait. Boards rubbed with most gilt gone from decoration and corners slightly exposed, hinges loosening, ink name and date (Dec. 25 / 94) and embossed address stamp (Elm Place, Avon, N.Y.) on front endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. xvi, 318 pp, [18] (terminal publisher ad). 8vo. Original green cloth, black and gilt titles, image of Huck Finn with hands in pockets on front board, tree branch on spine, blank endpapers. Twain s classic satirical novel of American culture in the 19th century, originally published in 1885, and controversial ever since, appearing on many banned book lists. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry Huck Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detecti

• Publisher: Charles L. Webster & Company
• Year: 1891
• Edition: Reprint
• Printing: later
• Binding: hardcover

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