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Franklin Library leather edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion)," Frontispiece portrait of Mark Twain by Alexander Hay Ritchie, Illustrated by Ben F. Stahl, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1975. Bound in camel tan leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a hubbed spine, and a satin book marker----in near Fine condition. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who lived from 1835 – 1910, and better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist, reared in HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, the setting for "Huckleberry Finn." The opening lines are famous: "You don't know me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly---Tom's Aunt Polly, she is---and Mary, and the Widow Douglass, is all told about in that book---which is mainly a true book, with some stretcher, as I said before." The reader will learn about JUDGE THATCHER, the shiftless, drunken PAP FINN, the NEGRO JIM, and Huck and Jim's floating down the Mississippi River. 404 pages. I offer Combined shipping.