![]() ![]() While the recipient of this copy has not been identified, he must have been related to someone employed in the Webster publishing firm. The points of this copy are as follows: frontispiece is "Heliotype," tipped in, cloth visible on table title-page is tipped in, dated 1885, with 1884 copyright on verso contents page for chapter 6 reads "decided to leave" p. Even review copies were not generally distributed much before the publication date, as Clemens warned Webster to "Send no copy of the book to any newspaper until after the Century or the Atlantic shall have reviewed it" (Clemens to Webster, 27 January 1885). The present copy, however, is one of just a handful of copies presented by those associated with the publication of the work that were given as Christmas gifts in 1884, significantly in advance of the 16 February 1885 publication date. ![]() ![]() Green-morocco folding-case embossed with silhouette of Huck Finn.įirst edition, earliest possible issue, confirmed by a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper: "To 'Lute,' Christmas 1884." First editions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn present a welter of issue points, and copies are usually described as being "early" or "later" issues, as an absolute priority of issue has been impossible to establish. Publisher's pictorial green cloth inner joints cracking, head and foot of spine and corners worn with minor loss. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). ![]()
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