The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

by Mark Samuel L. Clemens Twain

$8,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

First edition

New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. CONDITION: Good, re-backed with original spine laid down, loss to head and foot of original spine, 1960s gift inscription in ink on preliminary leaf. First edition, first printing. With the uncommon placement of the gilt frog in the center of the front cover, not the lower left corner. BAL 3310. Item #8140

• Printing: first

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