[Rarebooks] FS: Mark Twain "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story" 1894

[Charles Agvent]

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. "Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' 
Story" in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, April, 1894. New York: The North 
American Review, April 1894. First Edition. Original printed wraps; 
Volume 158, #4. Twain discusses a claim from a "Professor Van Dyke, of 
Princeton," that his "Jumping Frog" story was acutally thousands of 
years old and based on a Greek tale. Also includes "Forgery as a 
Profession" by Robert A. Pinkerton, "How We Restrict Immigration" by Dr. 
Joseph H. Senner, "The Suppression of Lawlessness in the South" by 
Governor Stone of Mississippi, and other pieces. Small chip on spine. 
Near Fine and uncommon as an individual issue rather than in a bound 
volume. (#020199)        $100

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