Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. by TWAIN, Mark - 1885: With one hundred and seventy-four illustrations.

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn" - Ernest Hemingway First US edition, first printing, of one of the great classics of both American and children's literature.
This copy has the relevant first printing points: at p. 9 the misprint "Decided" for "Decides", at p. 13 the erroneous page reference "88" for the plate "Him and Another Man", and at p. 57, line 23, the misprint "with the was" for "with the saw". These are the only points to distinguish between the first two printings; other textual variants between copies are due to the use of multiple plates and have no relevance for priority.
This copy has the first state frontispiece with the table cloth visible and unsigned on the finished edge of the bust, the second state cancel title leaf (as always save for advance copies), and pages 283/284 with the later state emended illustration of Uncle Silas (as always with cloth copies). These points do not have bearing on priority of issue, nor does the binding (other copies being bound in leather, and in blue cloth), with the whole first printing issued on the same day in February 1885. The UK edition was published first, in December 1884. Square octavo. Original green pictorial cloth blocked in black and gilt, spine and front cover in lettered in gilt and black. Housed in a custom green morocco slipcase and green cloth chemise. Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt's portrait bust of Clemens, 173 text illustrations after E. W. Kemble. Lightly rubbed, couple of tips worn, cloth and gilt fresh, a few minor marks to contents, else clean and square. A very good, bright copy in the original cloth. BAL 3415; Grolier, 100 American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50; Kevin MacDonnell, "Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers," Firsts; The Book Collector's Magazine, Volume 8, Number 9 (September 1998), pp. 28-35.