Description

The Illustrated Junior Library edition. Wonderfully illustrated by Donald McKay with ten plates in full colour and numerous black and white drawings throughout. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's original decorated cloth featuring an all-over full colour illustration wrapping around both covers and the spine, the spine features a green label simulating morocco, gilt lettered and decorated in a riverboat motif. [vi], 431, [1] pp. A very good copy, internally fine, clean and fresh. The binding still very bright and attractive but with a little mellowing to the tips and corners, a few stains on the rear cover likely from water drops.

Edizione: a bright and fun illustrated edition of this american classic. this beloved grosset and dunlap series of books provided an unbeatable combination of fine colourplate illustration, near-private-press-quality printing and especially bright and appealing decorated cloth at an affordable price.<br> along with tom sawyer, huckleberry finn is considered the stepping stone to modern american literature. and along with tom sawyer, for the first time, the hero of the novel was a boy. these books are landmarks and hemingway often offered his opinion that the modern novel would have been impossible without them. with whitman’s leaves of grass and melville’s moby dick, they provide us with a view of america transcending its past and beginning its future.