The first American edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885. The book appeared earlier in the United Kingdom and Canada on December 10, 1884, but the United States edition followed on February 18, 1885.
Charles L. Webster and Company issued the American edition, which included illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Twain’s novel was the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was narrated by Huck Finn in a deliberately conversational form of American English. Its use of regional speech helped make it a landmark in American literature.
The different publication dates create the most common confusion in this question. Some references describe the novel as an 1884 book because of its British release, while an American-edition question specifically requires 1885. The first U.S. edition also became notable for a printing error in an illustration, which led to thousands of copies being produced before the problem was corrected.