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Price: US$46.50 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: META-CLASSIC: NEW First Edition (Orig. 1985) Stated First Printing (1985): NEW (but neatly price-clipped) handsomely-designed-&-illustrated mylar-protected jacket, NEW silk-finish linen-over-boards cover w/ titles ELEGANTLY gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, BEAUTIFUL unblemished luminous-green card-stock front & back end-papers, PRISTINE interior SPLENDIDLY typeset in Monotype-Centaur & Arrighi on SUPERB unblemished archival paper * 6.96" x 10.18" x 1.36", 1.34 kg, xxxii+424 (456) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Prepared to celebrate the centennial of the first publication of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in America in 1885, this handsome edition combines modern textual care & the artistry of Barry Moser. The text of Mark Twain's greatest novel has been lovingly & carefully restored from manuscript & other sources by editors working at The Bancroft Library at Berkeley. Every effort has been made to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, & punctuation. An entire chapter-length episode, omitted in most editions, is included in full. This Pennyroyal-California edition is made available by photo-lithography from the Pennyroyal-Press letterpress limited edition printed by Harold McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae in West Hatfield, Massachusetts. Typesetting in Monotype-Centaur & Arrighi by Mackenzie-Harris in San Francisco combines w/the distinguished design & 49 new wood engravings by Barry Moser to offer the reader a great novel in a superlative new form. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) was born in Missouri in 1835. He won his first fame from newspaper sketches written in Nevada & California in the 1860s. His wild humor, his intelligence, his ready wit, his gift for deflating pretensions, his talent for spinning tall tales, & his outright genius for finding the right word soon endeared him to a wide public. "Adventures of Huckleberry Fiinn", set in the Mississippi River valley of the author's childhood, was published in 1885 & became a worldwide classic. By the time of Mark Twain's death in 1910, he had become as much of a world-renowned figure as his fictional creations. Americans have continued to have a special affection for him. As Thomas A. Edison said, "An American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "All modern 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. "We come to see Huck . . . as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction; not unworthy to take a place w/ Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet, & other great discoveries that man has made about himself." -T.S. Eliot. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Pennyroyal Press, West Hatfield, MA, 1985.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely, near-pristine example of this lavish 1985 Pennyroyal Press edition of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". #14 OF 350 COPIES OF THIS CENTENARY EDITION, BOUND IN FULL GREEN LEATHER (EXECUTED BY E. GRAY PARROT, EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS) AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER AT THE LIMITATION. THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES THE ADDITONAL SUITE OF PLATES (IN THIS CASE, FEATURING 46 OF THE 49 BARRY MOSER WOODCUTS CALLED FOR) AND THE PUBLISHER'S OATMEAL LINEN CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE, NONE OF WHICH ARE MENTIONED IN THE LIMITATION. (The 3 missing plates within the suite are "Mark Twain", "The Cabin" and "Jim, Alone"). Clean and very well-preserved, with bright-gilt numbering and bordering to the front panel and crisp, completely unflecked gilt-titling and bordering along the spine. Thick folio, Barry Moser's highly-evocative woodcuts beautifully complementing the text. Foreword to this edition by Henry Nash Smith, printed by Harold McGrath.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3600.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. full green morocco. Accompanied by a linen-covered portfolio containing an extra set of the engravings, both enclosed in a linen-covered slipcase. (xxxiv), 419, (vii) pages. One of 350 copies signed by the artist Barry Moser. A near fine copy with the accompanying portfolio in fine condition. This edition was published on February 18, 1985 on the one hundredth anniversary of the publishing of the first American edition. It is full bound in a deep green morocco with borders of triple gold fillets on top and bottom covers by E. Gray Parrot, then of Easthampton, Massachusetts. A calligraphic pair of dates 1885, 1985 circled in gold, and spine decorated with gold fillets and title. Orange striped paste papers were used for the endpapers. Accompanied by the publisher's extra suite of 49 prints housed in a liner folder with the book and suite of plates housed in a linen slipcase. The publisher's Prospectus is laid in. As stated by John Henry Nash in his foreword, we are reminded "that the course of American literature was changed by Huck Finn. Second, that the use of speech as narrative won for American literature its own kind of freedom." A fine collector's copy in a like folder and slipcase. The book was printed by Harold McGrath.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.