Huckleberry Finn First Edition Notes
Book Description: New York, NY, U. S. A. Charles L. Webster And Company 1885., 1885.
Original gilt- and black-stamped green pictorial cloth. All commonly known early issue points (BAL 3415) are present: [3:] The conjugate title leaf shows copyright dated 1884; [1:] page 13: "Him and another Man" listed at page 88; [1:] page 57, 11th line from the bottom reads: "with the was"; [3:] page 283-84 is a cancel, illustration with straight pant-fly; [3:] page 155 with final "5" slightly larger; page 161, no signature mark "11"; Blank final leaf 238; frontispiece portrait showing drapery under the bust and imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company. Further first state points not identified in BAL include heading for chapter 6 reads "decided" (later corrected to "Decides") on p9; page 143 with "l" missing from "Col. " at top of illustration; 11 line 7 from the top part of b in "body" is missing; 8vo. First Edition; First Printing. Binding is Original Cloth. Bookseller Inventory # 1221