Lot Details
Lot 207
TWAIN, MARK The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
New York: C. H. Webb, New York, 1867. First edition, second issue (without ad leaf at front and with battered type to three pages). Original red beveled cloth, the upper cover lettered and stamped with a frog, the lower cover with the frog in blind, the spine gilt lettered, brown coated endpapers. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 (17 x 11 cm); 198 pp. Losses to spine tips and a tear to cloth and small gouge mid-spine, the hinges cracked, a few spots and stray stains, the text clean.
Mark Twain's scarce first published book, issued initially in 1000 copies, the present copy originating in the second issue of 550 copies printed from the original stereotype plates just 20 days later. The story is of California interest and is described in the Zamorano Eighty: "Perhaps no short sketch of Twain's so quickly won wide popularity as did 'The Jumping Frog.' Calaveras County, California, is known to thousands who have never seen the Golden State simply because of this gem of humor." BAL 3310.
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