[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely First Edition of Mark Twain's First Book, THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, 1867

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS 
COUNTY, AND OTHER SKETCHES. New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. First Edition. 
BAL 3310. The first printing of Mark Twain's first book, published in an 
edition of only 1000 copies, with the inserted ad leaf before the title 
page and undamaged type in folio 21 and in the last lines of pages 66 
and 198. In the traditionally preferred blue cloth with the 
traditionally preferred gilt frog in the center of the front cover. 
Twain's presentation copy to his mother was in blue cloth. A very faded 
signature of a previous owner at the top of the title page and a small 
blue ink stamp of the same name at the blank top of the dedication page. 
The text is quite clean with one page with a very short, hardly 
noticeable marginal repair. The cloth is bright and clean. The hinges 
have been professionally strengthened with no visible sign of the work 
ever having been done, and the spine has been neatly and expertly 
relined to repair a fingernail-sized chip at the head and fraying at the 
base. The result is quite stunning with the work visible only under 
close scrutiny. A bright, spectacular copy of his scarce first book. 
(#008602)        $25,000.00

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