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To Martin:

"Thank you---thank you ver much."

Elvis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin D. Zehr" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: which edition of AHF?


> It's like listening to Elvis' first recording, "That's All Right," while 
> playing the original 1954 Sun 78 (#209), including the audio imperfections 
> of the era's technology.  The real thing, no doubt about it.
> Martin Zehr
> Kansas City, Missouri
> -------------- Original message from Richard Talbot 
> <[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"
>> To:
>> 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)
>> > 

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