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(TWAIN, MARK--Eugene Field Forgery.) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. 8vo, publisher's terra-cotta cloth with gilt frog lower left and gilt-lettered cover and spine, blind-stamped frog on rear cover, spine ends and tips rubbed, some dampstains to front cover, others signs of rubbing and scuffing; lacks front free endpaper. New York: Webb, 1867
first edition, second issue with battered type and no advertisements. With three forged signatures by Eugene Field II: "Eugene Field / Chicago. Sept. 14. 1895" and "Bret Harte" on title-page, and "S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain)" on the dedication page. BAL 3310. Between the 1920s and late 1930s, Eugene II, son of poet Eugene Field, was known to have forged the signatures of Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt and Twain, as well as several others, profiting greatly from their sales. He was never formally charged for his illegal activities.
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