May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Twain, Mark. The Jumping Frog. 15 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, including frontispiece portrait of Twain. 8vo, original tan morocco by Daniel Kelm with 4 leather inlay frogs; publisher's linen folding case. Prospectus laid in. (Easthampton), 1985

Additional Details

"state proof edition," limited to fifteen copies out of the total edition of 325, this designated "Artist Proof C" and signed by robinson, with linen chemise containing an extra suite of the wood engravings, an etching of Twain, and 2 pencil drawings of frogs by Robinson, each signed. additionally inscribed and signed by robinson with self-portrait in pencil on front flyleaf.