Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
TWAIN, MARK. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. Edited by John Paul [Charles Henry Webb]. 12mo, publisher's maroon cloth over bevelled boards, frog device stamped diagonally in lower left corners of covers (gilt on front, blind on rear), soiling, spine darkened with tips rubbed and fraying slightly, corners with light exposure, short splits to joint extremities; diminishing narrow tidemark to pastedown, prelims and first 20 pages, paper repair to upper margin of first text leaf, 1/4 morocco drop-back case. New York: C.H. Webb, 1867

Additional Details

first edition of twain's first book, first printing, with publisher's advertisement leaf facing title and unbroken type on pp. 21, 66 and 198. The title sketch was first published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press November 18, 1865. BAL 3310; Johnson p. 3.