The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches

by Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens

$20,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. First edition, first issue with one page of publisher's preliminary ad leaf facing the title page and unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. Bound in publisher's original pebbled red cloth with beveled edges, titles in gilt on upper board and spine, with frog stamped in gilt on the lower left corner of the upper board and in blind on the lower board. Very Good or better with shallow chipping to

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