1- This sounds like a MUST have no matter what other editions one already has. 2- Wasn't the first copy bound, according to Webster, November 26th (not 6th)? Cheers, Bob Twain's original dedication, which was never printed in any edition of the novel until it was inserted in the "Foreword" to the 2001 _Library_ edition, is accompanied by the information that it was tipped into the first bound copy of _Huckleberry Finn_ which is hand dated November 6, 1884 by publisher Charles Webster--a landmark date in the book's production.