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Twain, Mark.. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.. New York: Limited Editions Club., 1942.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan cloth. Large octavo. Spine label. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #636 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. A very good copy with some soiling to the spine. The text is very good with some light soiling. The slipcase is worn with some wear to the sides of the spine and lower edge. It lacks the top portion but is otherwise intact. Foreign postage extra on this heavy item.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is in good condition. This is Signed limited, printed by Limited Editions Club in 1942. There are no signatures, bookplates, or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of any foxing. There is some darkening to the spine. This is a Limited edition #1030 of only 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Thomas Hart Hart Benton. A hard to find copy of a classic work
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Limited Editions Club, 1942.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Please ask to see images. WITH SLIPCASE. No. 550 of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator Benton. Boards in poor condition, but internally VG condition. Brown cloth over boards with discoloration, more so to margins, soil, staining, general wear. Heavily darkened, stained spine. Label with crease wear, rubbing and heavy staining. Edgewear to spine extremities, tear and fray to tail. Heavy toning/ staining to front and rear interior gutters and gutter margins.Lighter toning to gutter internally. Soil, foxing to endpapers. Musty odor. Foxing, wear, soil to text block edges. Slipcase, poor, heavy wear, staining, soil, discoloration, tearing, paper loss, seams with split and/or detachment, paper label with staining, edge wear and small paper loss. Please ask to see images for your satisfaction. Shelf 7a.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 396 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine brown with orange paper label with black lettering. Fully bound in light brown buckram. Housed in Good Minus brown slipcase; head of slipcase missing. Mild shelf wear and soiling. Spine age-toned dark brown. Head of text block dyed green. Light staining to endpapers and pastedowns. Contains sepia illustrations. Signed flat by the illustrator Benton and hand-numbered 1452 at colophon. Shelved Case 8 1/2. 1375220. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, this is #698 and signed by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) on the colophon. lxxvi, 396 pp. Brown cloth boards with paper title pasted to spine, spine cloth has darkened slightly. Interior clean and crisp. Brown paper slipcase with paper title pasted to spine as well, paper hinge at top of case has split halfway along joint, in Very Good condition.
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$410.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain. Signed by artist Thomas Hart Benton. 362/1500. [1942] Limited Editions Club; good to very good slipcased hardcover. Typical darkening to spine and board edges (this edition tends to darken easily); bookplate on pastedown; publishers insert tipped to back pastedown. Tight/square and generally tidy. Slipcase is about good, with normal handling wear, rubbing.
Seller: Forgotten Lore, Friendswood, TX, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942, illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton copy #772/1500, signed by Thomas Hart Benton, in tan cloth binding, in newer custom fitted cloth covered fine custom slipcase, of heavy construction. Overall a near fine copy of a key Benton item
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$812.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in full butternut cloth with paper spine label. Edited with an introduction by Bernard De Voto who restores the chapter Clemens ripped out of the manuscript and inserted into LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Designed by C. P. Rollins and illustrated with line and wash drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Copy #342 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the colophon page. Spine of the book is only slightly darkened, much less than typical for this title. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some wear along the edges
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.