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(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Twain, Mark. The Jumping Frog. Printed in green and black. Wood-engraved illustrations throughout, by Alan James Robinson, plus a separate suite of 16 original watercolors of the engravings, laid into the book are a separate watercolor Inscribed and Signed for collector Dick Callaway and a separate thank you note to him by Robinson. 8vo, grey silver faux bois boards, spine of silver-lettered green morocco; book and suite laid into custom chemise and cloth folding box. Easthampton, 1985
unique artist's copy with 16 original watercolored etchings from a total edition of 325. A prospectus and a Typed Letter Signed from Robinson describing the copy are laid in. The text is taken from "Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old" as it first appeared in 1875 and contains three versions of the tale as well as an afterword, "The Private Printing of the 'Jumping Frog Story' by Samuel Clemens" from the North American Review #158, April, 1894.
