Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion) (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

lxx, 396 pp. 8vo. Original brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Bernard DeVoto, with illustrations by famous painter Thomas Hart Benton. A handsomely bound edition of Twain's controversial novel satirizing white racism through the adventures of a young boy along the Mississippi River. One of the first American novels written in vernacular, it has been adapted to film several times.