The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Date:
- 1948.
- Author:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH T969 A2 1948B LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Abstract:
- Huck tells of his adventures travelling down the Mississippi on a raft with an escaped slave, and of the many people they encounter, including a pair of swindlers and two families in a feud.
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Series:
- Illustrated junior library and Illustrated junior library.
- Notes:
- Special Collections' copy has dust jacket. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- [wunderlich-c]; Grosset & Dunlap, special contents c 1948, c 1884, 1896, 1899, 1912, 1918 'by arrangement with Harper', Popular edition, 21x14cm., 373p, with dust jacket, 28 items in dust jacket series list [latest c. 1965]; Illustrated Junior Library; publisher's series binding, spine titles and vignette printed in green and brown on cream cloth, front and back cover patterned design printed in green and brown
- Subjects:
- Boys Missouri Juvenile fiction, Fugitive slaves Missouri Juvenile fiction, Boys Travel Mississippi River Juvenile fiction, American fiction 19th century, Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Fiction, Runaway children Fiction, Male friendship Fiction, Fugitive slaves Fiction, Race relations Fiction, Boys Fiction, American fiction, Boys, Boys Travel, and Fugitive slaves
- Genres/Forms:
- Young adult books, Humorous fiction, Bildungsromans, Action and adventure fiction, Juvenile works, Fiction, Adventure fiction. gsafd, Humorous fiction. gsafd, Bildungsromans. gsafd, Bildungsromans. lcgft, Action and adventure fiction. lcgft, Humorous fiction. lcgft, and Juvenile literature. rbgenr
- Names:
- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction and Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)
- Chronological Terms:
- 1800-1899 fast
- Geographic Terms:
- Missouri Juvenile fiction, Mississippi River Fiction, Missouri Fiction, Mississippi River, and Missouri
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