CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches. New York: C.H. Webb 1867. 12mo, original brown cloth, bevelled edges, the frog, in gilt, is in the lower left part of the front cover, slight fraying at heel of spine, less so at top of spine, a fore-corner slightly worn, blue half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, inserted leaf of advertisements at front. BAL 3310; Johnson/ Clemens, p. 3; Zamorano 80, no. 17: "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." Bookplate of Arthur Swann. A very good copy of the book that catapulted Mark Twain to literary celebrity.
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And Other Sketches. New York: C.H. Webb 1867. 12mo, original brown cloth, bevelled edges, the frog, in gilt, is in the lower left part of the front cover, slight fraying at heel of spine, less so at top of spine, a fore-corner slightly worn, blue half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, inserted leaf of advertisements at front. BAL 3310; Johnson/ Clemens, p. 3; Zamorano 80, no. 17: "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." Bookplate of Arthur Swann. A very good copy of the book that catapulted Mark Twain to literary celebrity.
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