11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Synopsis from Amazon UK:
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control - which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.

My rating: 5 stars

Publication information:

• First published in 1884 by Charles L. Webster
• First edition: 8vo, bright gilt decorated cover and spine. Original gilt-and black-stamped green pictorial cloth. All commonly known early issue points (BAL 3415) are present: [3: ] The conjugate title leaf shows copyright dated 1884; [1: ] page 13: "Him and another Man" listed at page 88; [1: ] page 57, 11th line from the bottom reads: "with the was"; [3: ] page 283-84 is a cancel, illustration with straight pant-fly; [3: ] page 155 with final "5" slightly larger; page 161, no signature mark "11"; Blank final leaf 238; frontispiece portrait showing drapery under the bust and imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company. Further first state points not identified in BAL include heading for chapter 6 reads "decided" (later corrected to "Decides") on p9; page 143 with "l" missing from "Col. " at top of illustration; 11 line 7 from the top part of b in "body" is missing.