The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain & illustrated by Edward Windsor Kemble [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER] 1979 • The Franklin Library

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer's Companion) with illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble

LEATHER BOUND COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1979] THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY

*Luxury illustrated edition bound with dark emerald leather, gilded cover and edges, and raised bands on spine.   Contains illustrations by E.W. Kemble that have been painstakingly reproduced from the original drawings and press cuts of the First Edition. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Boards are near pristine with some minor wear.  Top of text block has some erosion to gild.   Reads like new. *ex-libris plate from orig. owner on front endpaper.

The story of Huck and his companion Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi to escape from slavery and "sivilization" has been delighting readers around the world since Twain first published it in 1885. Simply put, it is a revolutionary in its narrative method, surpassingly funny, and at the same time deeply perceptive about human nature. No other American novel of the nineteenth century still commands so vast an audience, and certainly no other retains the capacity to stir controversy with its sharp satire on American racism.