Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by TWAIN, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS] (1835-1910), [KEMBLE, E.W., illustrator]

London: Chatto & Windus, 1906. [American Literature] LEATHER-BOUND VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 438 [36]. With 174 illustrations by Kemble, including a frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements dated May 1906. Recently rebound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original blue navy cloth with gilt titles to upper over boards. Light toning and spotting to edges. Advertisements heavily browned. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Following the classic 'boy's own' adventures of the promising young gent Tom Sawyer, Twain here attempts a more mature, somewhat darker picture of a less privileged American childhood on the mighty Mississippi. Regarded by many as a cornerstone of American literature, it confronts issues such as slavery in a sympathetic yet humorously sardonic tone which belonged to Twain alone. First published in the UK in 1884.