Price: £35
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1993
Stock Number: 76709
Twain (Mark, pseud for Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Introduction by Colin Ward. Wood engravings by Harry Brockway.
Description: FIRST EDITION THUS, 16 monochrome wood-engraved illustrations, pp. xv, [i], 288, 8vo, publisher's black cloth-backed boards, both boards decorated with repeated profile pattern, spine silver-lettered, pale green slipcase, near finePublication Details: The Folio Society, 1993
Notes: '...a book which celebrates, not the loss of a child's vision through the experience of a sordid and brutal world, but Huck's wary rejection of the Southern beliefs he knows he ought to hold, and the triumph of his innocence.' (Introduction)
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