Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; foreword by Henry Nash Smith

Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxxi, 417 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 45 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Contents: The Life of Mark Twain -- Discover Moses and the Bulrushers -- Our Gang's Dark Oath -- We Ambuscade the A-rabs -- The Hair-ball Oracle -- Pap Starts in on a New Life -- Pap Struggles with the Death Angel -- I Fool. Pap and Get Away -- I Spare Miss Watson's Jim -- The House of Death Floats By -- What Comes of Handlin Snake-skin -- They're After Us! -- ""Better Let Blame Well Alone"" -- Honest Loot from the ""Walter Scott"" -- Was Solomon Wise? -- Fooling Poor Old Jim -- The Rattlesnake-skin Does Its Work -- The Grangerfords Take Me In -- Why Harney Rode Away for His Hat -- The Duke and the Dauphin Come Aboard -- What Royalty Did to Parkville -- An Arkansas Difficulty -- Why the Lynching Bee Failed -- The Orneriness of Kings -- The King Turns Parson -- All Full of Tears and Flapdoodle -- I Steal the King's Plunder -- Dead Peter Has His Gold -- Overreaching Don't Pay -- I Light Out in the Storm -- The Gold Saves the Thieves -- You Can't Pray a Lie -- I Have a New Name -- The Pitiful Ending of Royalty -- We Cheer Up Jim -- Dark, Deep-Laid Plans -- Trying to Help Jim -- Jim Gets His Witch Pie -- ""Here a Captive Heart Busted"" -- Tom Writes Nonnamous Letters -- A Mixed-up and Splendid Rescue -- ""Must 'a' Been Sperits"" -- Why They Didn't Hang Jim. Subjects: Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) ; Fiction ; Runaway children ; Male friendship ; Fugitive slaves ; Race relations ; Voyages and travels ; Slavery ; Boys Missouri Fiction ; Mississippi River ; Fiction.