“all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . it is the best book we’ve had. all American writing comes from that. there was nothing before. there has been nothing as good since.” – Ernest Hemingway
TWAIN, MARK. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)
New York: Webster, 1885
Original green decorated cloth with a portrait of Huck. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First state of frontispiece. Cloth case. Minor wear. Minor wear to spine ends, one gathering a little pulled, minor soiling. A very good copy.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with all of the first state text points found in cloth copies. A variety of errors were discovered and corrected during the course of printing the first edition, and collectors have always preferred the earliest, uncorrected states.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first banned by the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year it was published, as it was considered coarse and “more suited to the slums than to respectable, intelligent people.” Twenty years later the Brooklyn Public Library banned the book from the children’s reading room as Huck set a bad example for children. Over the years Huck Finn has continued to be controversial, and it regularly features in the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week events. It was the fifth most-banned American book in the 1990s.
Tom Sawyer “and its sequel Huckleberry Finn . . . let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys” (Grolier/American).”
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