Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper between 18. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). After making a trip down the Hudson River, Twain returned to his work on the novel. He appeared to have lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. Beginning with a few pages he had removed from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography. Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through adulthood. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.

All of these occur at random in relation to each other within copies of the first printing, a strong indicator of the use of multiple plates, and possibly mixed sheets within the collating process” (“Huck Finn” Firsts Magazine). the dropped “5” on p 155), MacDonnell concludes, “they are of no significance in determining the sequence of the printing of the sheets. As to issue points resulting from damaged plates (e.g. imprint copyright page dated 1884 page 143 with “l” missing from “Col.” at top of illustration and with broken “b” in “body” on line seven page 155 with a larger final “5” page 161, no signature mark “11”. Other points of bibliographical interest included in this copy are the frontispiece portrait with the cloth table cover under the bust, bearing the Heliotype Printing Co. Contains all of the agreed upon first issue points for the clothbound book: page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”) page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88 page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was,” instead of “with the saw”. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Webster and Company, 1885.įirst edition of Mark Twain’s masterpiece.

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