The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, Early State. 366pp. Octavo [22 cm] Original green cloth with pictorial stamping to front board and backstrip. Near fine. Text is profusely illustrated throughout by E.W. Kemble. Twain frontis portrait present. Signed card laid in. Beautiful first edition of this timeless coming of age story that tells the story of a young boy, Huck Finn, who escapes his abusive father and travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Twain’s masterpiece explores themes of racism, personal freedom, and coming-of-age through humorous and often satirical situations, including encounters (truncated) with con artists and other colorful characters along the river. This work is considered by many to be the great American novel. "all American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....there was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." - Ernest Hemingway. BAL 3415. (Inventory #: 8923)