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CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'MARK TWAIN' The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches... Edited by John Paul, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, New York, C.H. Webb, 1867
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CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'MARK TWAIN'
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A VERY GOOD UNRESTORED COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF MARK TWAIN'S FIRST BOOK, WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. "Copies were bound simultaneously in green, terra cotta, dark brown, lavender, blue, deep purple, maroon and red cloth" (Macdonnell, 'The Primary First Editions of Mark Twain', in Firsts, vol. 8, no. 7/8). The present copy has the frog in the corner on the front cover as opposed to the centre, but priority has not been established.
Provenance: Thomas Beer (1889–1940, biographer and author of The Mauve Decade), inherited from his mother, Alice Baldwin, whose ownership inscription appears on the fly-leaf.





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