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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
by TWAIN, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. Full-Leather. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library reprint edition of Mark Twain's great American novel, first published in 1884. Includes illustrations by Tom Allen. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full navy bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Blue silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A gift-worthy copy, but with shallow indentations to fore-edges of covers, else about Fine: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked (and probably unread).; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (18), 324 pages .
Synopsis
Commonly named among the Great American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is generally regarded as the sequel to his earlier novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; however, in Huckleberry Finn, Twain focused increasingly on the institution of slavery and the South. Narrated by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn in Southern antebellum vernacular, the novel gives vivid descriptions of people and daily life along the Mississippi River while following the adventure of Huck and a runaway slave, Jim, rafting their way to freedom.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86948
- Title
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's Comrade (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
- Author
- TWAIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1983
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
This Book’s Categories
- Bindings & Editions Leather
- Fiction & Literature Action & Adventure
- Fiction & Literature Fiction by Region American Fiction
- Fiction & Literature Classic Literature
- Fiction & Literature Individual Authors Mark Twain
- Fiction & Literature Literary Studies Literary Criticism
- Children & Juvenile Juvenile & Young Adult Juvenile Fiction & Literature Juvenile Classics
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