This is one of those blue bindings- 20 times rarer than the green. Subscribers who had already purchased Tom Sawyer, and wanted a binding to match, were invited to request a blue cloth binding on Huck instead of the publisher's green. There has been nothing since." Huck has been called "the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction" ( Legacies of Genius, 47). The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. Twain once described Huck Finn as "a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat." Written over an eight-year period, Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks from the moment of publication, standing accused of "blood-curdling humor," immorality, coarseness and profanity. This is a rare, blue cloth copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Rare first edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction,” one of an unspecified but small number of early copies bound in blue cloth to match Tom Sawyer rather than the usual green cloth, with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped blue pictorial cloth. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). IT’S THE BEST BOOK WE’VE HAD”: FIRST ISSUE OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, IN THE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BLUE CLOTH BINDING “ALL MODERN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN.
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