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> >