Bernard J Shapero : Rare Books

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[COSWAY-STYLE BINDING]. TWAIN, Mark.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). With one hundred and seventy-four illustrations.


New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885,. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo, 366 pp. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in full crimson morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, front with a portrait of Mark Twain hand-painted on vellum and set beneath bevelled glass within a decorative gilt border, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, silk moire endliners. A fine and very attractive copy. Housed in a red cloth slipcase, lined in felt and with two black morroco lettering labels stamped in gilt. Inserted frontispiece portrait and text illustrations.

BAL 3415. Johnson, Twain, pp. 43-50. McBride, pp. 92-112.

Price: £ 7500
US Dollar Price: $ 10880
Stock Number: 74360