The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Illustrated Junior Library) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - 1948

New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers , 1948 Grosset and Dunlap, New York. c1948. Hardcover. The special contents of this edition are copyrighted 1948. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O names on the front and rear pastedowns. Book Condition: Good+; light shelfwear to board edges; soiling to textblock fore edge; splash marks on boards. DJ: Good +; Price Clipped; chipping to head, tail, and tips with small missing pieces. Green cloth boards with pipe, bell, and mulligan can pictures on front and rear boards; green overlay on spine with red lettering on the spine with fishing pole and steamer illustrations. Pictorial Huck and Jim endpapers. Tinted textblock top. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 373 pp 8vo. A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.