It remains one of the most loved, and most banned, books in American history. He wears cast-off adult clothes and sleeps in doorways and empty barrels. Twain once said that Huck is based on Tom Blankenship, a childhood friend whose father, Woodson Blankenship, was a poor drunkard and the likely model for Pap Finn. Huckleberry Finn was written in two short bursts. He stopped working on it for several years to write The Prince and the Pauper and Life on the Mississippi.
It must have inspired him, because he dove into finishing Huckleberry Finn. Huck, who grows up in the South before the Civil War, not only accepts slavery, but believes that helping Jim run away is a sin. Not only was Missouri a slave state, but his uncle owned 20 slaves. Those were the saddest faces I have ever seen. But most memorable may be the character of Emmeline Grangerford , the year-old poet. Emmeline is a parody of Julia A. She called them tributes. There has been nothing as good since.
It was language that was clear, crisp, and vivid, and it changed how Americans wrote. And along with Tom Sawyer, for the first time, the hero of the novel was a boy.
These books are landmarks and Hemingway often offered his opinion that the modern novel would have been impossible without them. With Whitman s Leaves of Grass and Melville s Moby Dick, they provide us with a view of America transcending its past and beginning its future. Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. First American edition. Original green publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and black. Spine ends slightly frayed, and some rubbing to rear board, else a lovely and unrestored copy, housed in a custom morocco solander box.
Contains the three first printing points: "Huck Decided" on p. Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt's portrait bust of Clemens, illustrations after E. Kemble in the text throughout. The present copy bears an exceptional association, being a publisher's presentation copy inscribed by Charles Webster to his cousin on the front endpaper: "To Miss Ella Moffett with the compliments of her cousin the publisher of the book.
New York, March 19th Recounting the adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he flees his own abusive father and aids Jim in his escape from slavery, Twain's novel has been praised for its "distinctly American voice," putting at its center two common people who find an uncommon friendship. Huck is no innocent: He lies, steals, smokes, swears, and skips school. He accepts no authority, not from his father or the Widow Douglas or anyone else.
And it is the twin images of a perilous, harrowing odyssey of adventure and perfect freedom from all restraints that so many readers find entrancing" Mintz. A metaphor for a young and rebellious nation, as well as its individualist inhabitants, Huckleberry Finn defies genre by being simultaneously an adventure story, a road novel, a coming of age tale, an expression of nostalgia for the expansive natural spaces lost to industrialization, and an exploration of race and class.
MacDonnell, The original full sheepskin edition. First Edition, first printing, with all of the earliest first issue points, and the only edition with the censored illustration with the bulging fly on page the original conjugate page, not the cancel that appears in all other first editions.
Book very good, leather cracking along spine to front cover, as well as a little on other side of spine to rear cover; some water damage to rear cover, and rubbing on covers. The scarcest and earliest version of this title. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Published by Webster, New York, Used - Hardcover Condition: Near fine. Condition: Near fine. First US edition. A near fine first edition, with all first issue points that appeared in the cloth edition, with a slip of paper inscribed by Mark Twain and an original drawing by the illustrator laid in.
Housed in a custom-made clamshell case. First Edition, First Printing with the important first issue points. The points present are: Heliotype Printing Co. A beautiful copy with slight repair to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publishers to Daniel Whitford, Twain's lawyer: "To Daniel Whitford, with regards of the publisher, Chas. New York, February 21st, He acted for Twain in the highly publicized lawsuit over the dramatization of the Prince and the Pauper by Abby Sage Richardson.
House, who claimed that Richardson's adaptation was plagiarized from House's dramatization of the novel, written for Twain years before. Frohman paid House from Twain's royalties to prevent the closure of the play; in turn, Twain sued Frohman for his royalties amounting to five or six thousand dollars in Much bibliographical confusion has been generated by Huckleberry Finn.
In fact, only three substantive changes were introduced after the first printing: at p. The frontispiece was printed separately, inserted at random, and has no relation to the order of the printed sheets. At some stage it was realised that the Uncle Silas illustration on page had been mischievously tampered with and was cancelled.
In this copy, the illustration is in second state. Publisher's half morocco, marbled edges, gilt rules to covers, spine lettered gilt with gilt decorated compartments, marbled endpapers. Spine sunned, extremities and tips worn, covers a little scuffed, some foxing and marks to contents. An excellent copy. Published by Charles Webster and Co, Leather binding. First Edition, 1st Printing. Some minor marks to boards else a beautiful copy of the rare copies sheepskin bound first edition.
This is a beautiful copy with no restoration necessary to the rather fragile sheepskin binding. All first edition points are present in this copy. These points are the page reference 88 on p. First edition, first issue of Twain's masterpiece, one of approximately copies bound in publisher's three-quarters morocco binding.
Octavo, original three-quarters brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. Lithographic frontispiece and with illustrations by E.
Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt. Copies of Huckleberry Finn in the original publisher's leather bindings are quite rare: "The relative rarity of the cloth and leather bindings is clear. Less than two weeks before publication, [the publisher] Webster announced that he was binding 20, copies in cloth, another 2, in sheep, and copies in three-quarter leather.
The remaining copies of the first printing were probably bound up in similar proportions leather copies dried out, cracked apart, and have survived in even fewer numbers than the original production numbers would promise" MacDonnell, In very good condition, rebacked with light rubbing to extremities.
A very nice example. Twain initially conceived of the work as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huckleberry Finn through 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 worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood.
He appeared to have lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. After making a trip down the Hudson River, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade. Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper between and Paul Needham, stated, "What you see is [Clemens'] attempt to move away from pure literary writing to dialect writing.
He initially wrote, "You will not know about me", which he changed to, "You do not know about me", before settling on the final version, "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'; but that ain't no matter. It s the best book we ve had. Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Condition: Near Fine. A very good first edition, first issue in the rare sheepskin binding which has been recased with a new spine.
Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with a leather spine. Light, expert and unobtrusive refurbishment to the joints and new matching spine. With Whitmans Leaves of Grass and Melvilles Moby Dick, they provide us with a view of America transcending its past and beginning its future.
In very good condition. A nice example. First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's masterpiece. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth. Subscribers who had already purchased Tom Sawyer, and wanted a binding to match, were invited to request a blue cloth binding on Huckleberry Finn instead of the publisher's green.
This is one of those blue bindings--twenty times more rare than the green. This copy has all of the commonly identified first issue points copies were assembled haphazardly by the printer and there is yet to be agreement among bibliographers as to the priority of many points. First issue points include 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,".
Debate continues over the priority of other points of issue and state. This copy contains the following points of bibliographical interest: frontispiece portrait without cloth table cover under the bust, bearing the Heliotype Printing Co.
Literature] Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] A very nice first edition of one of the most important books in American literature. Hemingway believed that "American writing comes from that. There has been nothing as good since. A very handsome copy. Bound in original dark green cloth over boards with spine and upper board stamped in black and gilt. Some rubs and minor fading to cloth covers, a few shallow bumps to board fore corners and spine ends.
Hinges not cracked. Housed custom cloth and board folder in half morocco slipcase. Original cloth. Used - Softcover. First edition of Mark Twain's masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher's decorated green cloth, with illustrations by Edward W.
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". Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives of Huckleberry Finn. Durham, N. Gilly, Casey. Kakutani, Michiko. Elizabeth R. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [electronic resource]. Other articles in Controversial Works.
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