Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. First edition (preceding the US edition), first issue with advertisements dated October 1894, binding state B (no priority assigned), 8vo, xvi 438 [2] pp., original diagonal-ribbed red cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text, 32 pp. advertisements to rear (preceding by leaf blank save for publisher's wood-engraved colophon), spine slightly toned, a few marks to covers, upper fore corner of front board bumped, endpapers cracked along inner hinges with webbing visible, S1 with closed tear at head of gutter;
Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First edition, 8vo, 20th-century red calf gilt by Frost & Co. of Bath, top edge gilt, half-title, folding chromolithographic frontispiece, 16 pp. advertisements to rear dated 5G.8.85 and 5B.8.85, original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear, ownership inscription of Brent Gration-Maxfield to front free endpaper, his binding instructions in pencil to advertisements, spine slightly faded, joints rubbed, spotting, neat repair to frontispiece, pp. 271/2 with paper restoration to fore margin;
Hilton, James. Good-bye, Mr. Chips. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First US edition, 8vo, original tan cloth lettered in blue, with the dust jacket (price-clipped), bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown;
Alken, Henry (illustrator). The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod. London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1842. First edition, 8vo (23.9 x 14.5cm), 20th-century red crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, all edges gilt, 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 8 pp. advertisements to rear, original cloth covers bound in, bookplate (Stuart-Stevenson of Torrance), ownership inscription to original front free endpaper, 3 plates (facing pp. 14, 18 and 55) mounted on card (as issued, the mounts each with imprint to foot) (4)