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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. E.W. Kemble (illustrateur). The Annotated Huckleberry Finn. Slight bumping to corners, minor shelfwear, chipping on bottom edge, else very good.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. E.W. Kemble (illustrateur). First edition thus. NYC: Norton, 2001. 1st edition thus, NF/NF. Book has former owner name (felt-tip) on FFE. Dust jacket have some light edge wear. Profusely illustrated with old-time b & w photos and drawings. Includes double-column text, annotations on most pages, two appendices (1. "Jim and the Dead Man" 2. "The Raft Episode"), bibliography. Another wonderful volume in the annotated books of literature. Nice copy, heavy book, 480 pp.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. Illustrated w/ the original illustrations by E.W. Kemble & w/ hundreds of archival photographs & drawings (illustrateur). 1st Edition. SUPERB: METACLASSIC: INDISPENSABLE: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." -Ernest Hemingway: Over 100 years after its initial publication, this SUMPTUOUS, BEAUTIFULLY-ILLUS., THOROUGHLY ANNOTATED new edition celebrates Twain's great American novel within its historical & literary context: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2001) First Printing: NEW handsomely-illus. unclipped mylar-protected cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $39.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, BEAUTIFUL deep-blue library-durable-treated marbled-paper-over-boards cover w/ gleaming silver-green double-rule borders & w/ line-portrait of Huck within interior borders centered on front panel & titles similarly handsomely presented within gleaming pale-silver-green double-rule borders on spine, IMPECCABLE pale-teal end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ gold-blue-checked linen bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior SPLENDIDLY marrying a profuse panoply of skillfully-selected illustrations w/ texts presented down center of pages (left & right) & extensive annotations w/ additional illus. conveniently presented in generous left-right outside margins.* 8.74" x 10.26" x 1.86", 1.96 kg, clxvii+480 (648) pp * FEATURING: (a) Countless annotations drawing on vast amounts of primary success & much previously unknown material; (b) A lengthy introduction about Twain's life, his writing, & the publication of Huckleberry Finn; (c) All of the original E.W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition; (d) Additional rare drawings, photographs, cartoons, posters & other illustrations (274 in all) in 2-color throughout.* ABOUT THE BOOK: A sumptuous annotated edition of the great American novel: First published in 1885, the book has delighted millions of readers, while simultaneously riling contemporary sensibilities, & is still banned in many schools & libraries. Now, Michael Patrick Hearn, author of the best-selling The Annotated Wizard of Oz, thoroughly reexamines the 116-year heritage of that archetypal American boy, Huck Finn, & follows his adventures along every bend of the mighty Mississippi River. Hearn's copious annotations draw on primary sources including the original manuscript, Twain's revisions & letters, & period accounts. Reproducing the original E.W. Kemble illustrations from the first edition, as well as countless archival photographs & drawings, some of them previously unpublished, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn is a book no family's library can do without; it may well prove to be the classic edition of the great American novel. * ABOUT MARK TWAIN: SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel" & The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & many others. * ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: EDWARD WINSOR KEMBLE (1861-1933) was born in Sacramento, California. An American cartoonist and illustrator, Kemble was commissioned by Mark Twain to illustrate the original edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He also created political cartoons and other illus. for newspapers and magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, The New York Daily Graphic, and Life. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR-EDITOR: MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN has written for the NYT, The Nation & many other publications. His books include From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration & The Porcelain Cat; he has edited The Victorian Fairy Tale Book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Christmas Carol, & The Annotated Huckleberry Finn. He lives in New York City. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "For 100 years, the argument that this novel 'is' has been identified, reidentified, waged & advanced. What it cannot be is dismissed. It is classic literature, which is to say it heaves, manifests, & lasts." -Toni Morrison.