Given what it's worth, do you actually touch it with bare hands?  

Gregg

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Talbot <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:12 pm
Subject: Re: which edition of AHF?
To: [log in to unmask]


> Hello Forum---I miss you all and I wish I was back in Elmira....
>  
>  There's probably one other member of the forum out there who would 
> agree 
>  with my choice of AHF. I use ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. New 
> York: 
>  Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. BAL 3415. First Edition, First 
> state. To 
>  hold this book in your hands, to feel its glossy pages, smell its 
> pungent 
>  mustiness, to see the book, itself, as art, now that's reading.
>  
>  Rick Talbot
>  
>  Collector in Minnesota, the State Where Nothing Is Allowed
>  
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Harold Bush" <[log in to unmask]>
>  To: <[log in to unmask]>
>  Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:11 PM
>  Subject: which edition of AHF?
>  
>  
>  > just out of curiosity -- which edition of Huck Finn do teachers on 
> here
>  > prefer to use in the classroom?
>  > I used to use the old Bedford critical edition edited by G. Graff 
> but I 
>  > see
>  > it is now evidently out of print.  It may be that the Penguin classics
>  > edition (Seelye) is also either out of print or about to be replaced.
>  >
>  > -- 
>  > Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
>  > Professor of English
>  > Saint Louis University
>  > St. Louis, MO  63108
>  > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
>  > <www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/faculty/hbush.html> 
>