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Lot 359

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (?Mark Twain?) (1835?1910). The A...

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CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (?Mark Twain?) (1835?1910). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo. Half?title, lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble with tissue?guard, numerous in?text illustrations. Full modern red morocco twice gilt ruled, 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, orange and green morocco lettering?pieces gilt, gilt fillets in remainder, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt fillet turn ins, gilt stamp?signed by Bayntun?Riviere; original cloth bound in at end. Provenance: W. Carow? (early ownership signature on title?page). FIRST BRITISH EDITION, unknown issue (lacking ads at end). Precedes the first American edition by several months. A FINE COPY. BAL 3414.