The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, First Edition (19 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 231 pages approx. Hardcover with dust jacket. The Oxford Mark Twain, Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Intro by Roy Blount Jr., afterward by Richard Bucci. Very minor scuffing and wear to jacket, cover edges, very clean and tight copy. Record # 2231318.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing thus. Clean, tight hardcover bound in quarter cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($16.95) and presents vividly with light soiling to the back panel. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in jacket. xliv, 198 + 33pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of this Running Press edition, with full number line. Miniature title measuring about 3 by 3 inches. Fine in fine jacket. Quarto, 80 pages, green boards, pictorial jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

1st. 8vo. 4pp. Prospectus for The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County published by Cheloniidae Press in 1985. Includes a brief description of the book and a letter-press printed sampling from the book. Also includes details from the publisher and ordering information. A fine copy.

Condition: FINE. First thus - a limited edition. One in a series of limited editions published as gifts for employees and clients of West Virginia Pulp Paper - this was for Christmas 1959. Includes a foreword with a brief publishing history: this edition is based on Webb's 1867 edition. Illustrated with drawings. Green and cream marbled endpapers. xv, 119 pp. Just about fine in tan boards with a dark green leatherette spine, in a somewhat toned and soiled, but still sturdy tan slipcase.

1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for Mark Twain's Classic: THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, AND OTHER SKETCHES. A Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished in black Nuba® with a 'sculpted' design of a leaping frog illustration with gold sides. Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. "Book definitely NOT included" When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1867 Mark TWAIN 1ed FAMED Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Sketches Humor A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain Mark Twain and his works were immensely popular all on their own. Jumping Frog was Mark Twain s first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. It was published in 1865 as part of a small collection of short stories. This 1867 first English edition was edited by John Paul as a printing of the original material including: 1. Jumping Frog 2. Curing a Cold 3. Among the Spirits 4. Killing Julias Ceasare 5. Concerning Chambermaids 6. The Steed Oahu 7. And many more Item number: #31028 Price: $1500 TWAIN, Mark (Editor: PAUL, John) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches London: George Routledge, 1867. First Edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o viii, 9-187, [1] References: BAL 3586 Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Blue cloth Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 11cm) VERY RARE and desirable with very high auction records and price comparisons Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 31028 Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. 16mo (6.5" x 4"), modern half morocco, gray paper over boards, marbled edges. viii, 9-187. CONDITION: Good, faint dampstain to upper edge of title, small brown stains to inmost sections of upper margins of some leaves. First English edition. Originally published in wrappers. Scarce. "An incident on which the jumping frog story is based actually occurred at or near Angel's Camp and was reported in a Sonora newspaper in 1853. Mark Twain heard the story from an old bartender named Ben Coon in Angel's Camp in early 1865. His brief notes indicate that the frog's owner was called Coleman and that the amount of money wagered was $50. Shortly after leaving Angel's Camp, Mark Twain began writing his own version of the story, but it took him half a year and several false starts to find a satifactory framework." REFERENCES: BAL 3586; Rasmusen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z (New York, 1995), p. 266.

CONDITION: Good, re-backed with original spine laid down, loss to head and foot of original spine, 1960s gift inscription in ink on preliminary leaf. First edition, first printing. With the uncommon placement of the gilt frog in the center of the front cover, not the lower left corner. BAL 3310.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of Mark Twain's first book, in the original binding. Gilt stamped green front cover, blind stamp back cover. Unbroken 'this' on final page, unbroken 'life' on page 66, unbroken '21' on page 21. Wear to corners, edges of spine fraying (see photos). Binding is sound. Text leans. Lacking the advertising page facing the title page. Previous owner's inscription on the dedication page. Significant foxing throughout (photos of the title page and copyright page are representative of the whole).

First edition, first printing of the author's rare first book. Octavo, original cloth, first issue lacking the leaf of ads facing the title page but with unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. In very good condition with light wear to the extremities. A sharp example. "Perhaps no short sketch of Twain's so quickly won wide popularity as did 'The Jumping Frog.' Calaveras County, California, is known to thousands who have never seen the Golden State simply because of this gem of humor. This little volume, the author's first published book, came into being under the sponsorship of Charles Henry Webb-who also edited it under his pseudonym of 'John Paul.' To accompany 'The Jumping Frog' he chose twenty-six other sketches, of which at least two, 'Curing a Cold' and 'The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief,' later attained the distinction of being incorporated into recitation books for the delectation of even wider audiences" Zamorano 80 #17. BAL 3310;

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EDITED BY JOHN PAUL (illustrator). First Edition. "80. CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.). The Celebrated Jumpimg Frog of Calaveras County, and other Sketches. FIRST EDITION, second issUe. 12mo, half morocco (title worn on inner margin). N. Y. 1867 * This is the FIRST PUBLICATION IN BOOK FORM BY MR. CLEMENS," BOOK PLATE, LOOSE TITLE PAGE, ADDITIONAL BOOKSELLERS PLATE IN BACK, SOME chips missing from last 2 blank pages. 198 pages of text, A. EDWARD NEWTON'S copy, He is best known for his book Amenities of Book Collecting (1918) which sold over 25,000 copies.[1] At the time of his death, it was estimated that he had approximately 10,000 books in his collection, focusing on English and American literary works, the major part of which were auctioned by Parke-Bernet Galleries.

6.75 x 4.5, 198 pp, vg, pencil notes on back of adv page else FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE IN FULL CRUSHED BROWN MOROCCO, GILT STAMPED SPINE, ALL EDGES GILT, MARBLED END PAPERS. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A beautiful copy.

Publisher's cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and front cover. Bevelled edges. With gilt-stamped frog in the lower left corner of the front board, and the same image blindstamped on the rear board. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with unbroken type on pages 21, 66, and 198. The preliminary ad has been excised, but the remaining stub is clearly a different buff color from the surrounding pages, which is known to characterize the leaf. One of 1000 copies of the first printing of Twain's first book. There are a few small rents to the cloth on the front board. The tips of the lower forecorners are worn through, and there is a short split to the surface cloth only at the foot of the front joint. Internally, there is a spot or two of foxing to the first couple of pages, and the front hinge is perhaps just a little tender. A bright, Very Good, and unrestored copy of a title that is usually found rebacked or recased. BAL 3310.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. His first book, first printing (only 1,000 copies), first binding (something like first 100 copies of the 1,000). Original brown cloth, 1 of 7 colors with no priority (green is the most common, more than half the edition), early owner's name to the top blank margin of the title page, tiny nick to the front free endpaper, still fine, crisp, condition, beauty beyond sorrow, dazzling beyond reasonable expectation, and here's a thought: Are famous books in fine condition, the new designer drug? Identifying the first printing is straightforward. It was published in May 1867, at $1.25, and all copies have a single ad leaf on yellow paper inserted before the title, an unbroken "1" in the folio (page number) 21, an unbroken "e" in "life" in the last line of page 66, and an unbroken "i" in "this" in the last line of page 198. The first binding can't be missed. It has the gilt stamped frog in the center of the front cover and vertical (nose up), and the blind stamped frog in the same position of the back cover. Here's the why. After Twain, Webb and the onsite manager examined the first copies bound, the frog was quickly moved to the lower left corner and pointed at a 45° angle, a design preference to which all concerned agreed. Once the frog was moved from the center to the corner it stayed there throughout Webb's editions, so this is not a random, alternating positioning because the 2nd binding of the first printing has, and all copies of the later printings have, the frog in the lower left corner. Full Morocco case. Considering the small print run, survivors of the first printing are not as scarce as one would extrapolate, but fine copies of the first printing are very scarce, and those that are fine and in the first binding, with the frog in the front cover's center are rare, and in the elusive brown cloth (about 10% of the copies, and most of those in the ] binding with the frog in the corner), this copy brings together every desirable essential for Twain's first book, and in this combination of virtues is probably unmatched and certainly unsurpassable (the last first printing at auction in the first binding and brown cloth was 23 years ago and it was a dead frog, heavily worn, and defective, with broken hinges, and artless recoloring). Collation: 12mo. (4 1/2" X 6 5/8") [1, blank] [1, publisher's ad] 198, [2, blank] pp. . Reference: B. A. L. 3310. Featuring the tale of Jim Smiley and his trained frog, Dan'l Webster, set in a California gold-mining camp. Exploring themes of the culture clash between the Easterners and Westerners, and deception as a characteristic of the opportunistic nature of human behavior, themes Twain would examine in throughout the rest of his career. There are 26 other stories, all sharply written, but it is the title story that endures as the archetypal California tale, introducing Twain to the country and gaving him access to the business of literature. "By his story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump." Charles Henry Webb, publisher of The Celebrated Jumping Frog.

Condition: Good. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the blank recto of the advertisement leaf: "With compliments of Mark Twain New York, May 9, 1867." The original recipient's name has been torn away (and the advertisement leaf has been repaired with a section from another first edition copy). The novel was published in April 25, 1867, making this one of the earliest presentation copies known. The copy Twain presented to his mother was dated May 1st, and two other copies were dated May 10th (the day Twain gave a lecture at the Brooklyn Athenaeum). This copy last sold in 1991 at Christies in the Chester L. Davis sale. Another early presentation copy for John Stanton (Cory O'Lanus) sold in 2004 for $114,000. First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's first book. This copy features the gilt stamp of the leaping frog in the lower left corner, rather than centered on the board; it has all of the points of a first issue as delineated by BAL, including the leaf of ads by the title page and unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. The book has been carefully restored with a new spine (with the original spine laid down) and new endpapers. There is faint dampstaining throughout and the dampstaining to the inscribed leaf matches up with the rest of the book. Pencil notations to verso of final blank, including what looks like a name: C. Wood. And while it is not the only known presentation copy of Jumping Frog, this is undoubtedly one of a handful of copies of the first issue extant and the first to hit the market since the auction result in 2004. Housed in a simple, quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Mark Twain, with his account of the jumping frog, produced the most famous tale in California history if not the history of the American West. This little gem of humor propelled the author and his first book to international prominence. As his publisher, Charles Henry Webb, noted, "By his story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump." Twain's compilation of tales, along with those of Bret Harte, continues to romanticize and popularize the Gold Rush. The story of the lead-loaded frog (named Daniel Webster) made Angels Camp one of the best-known tourist attractions in the gold country. Twain first learned of the story of the jumping frog when he prospected in the vicinity of Jackass Hill in Tuolumne County. On a rainy January day in 1865 Twain and a friend, James Gillis, went into the bar at the Angels Camp Hotel in nearby Calaveras County and heard a gentleman by the name of Ben Coon tell the amusing story of the trained frog. He repeated the story to Artemus Ward, who in turn encouraged him to write it up and send it to Ward's publisher, Carleton, in New York. The tale's popularity spread across America and Europe until it was collected in the present volume. Zamorano 80. Huntington Library, Exhibition of Famous and Notorious California Classics, 17. Johnson, Twain, pp. 3-9. LC. Good.

First edition, first issue, of Mark Twain's first book. "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", Firsts, Vol. 8, no. 7/8). This copy features the gilt stamp of the leaping frog positioned to the lower left of the front cover as usual (some copies have the gilt stamp of the leaping frog in the centre of the front cover, though no priority has been established between the two); it has all of the points of a first issue as delineated by BAL. "Mark Twain wrote his story of the jumping frog. at the invitation of Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), his friend and the most popular American humorist of the day, to help fill out a volume of humorous sketches that Ward was editing. Fortuitously, and fortunately for Twain, the frog story arrived too late for inclusion in Ward's book; it was published instead as 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' in the New York Saturday Press on 18 November 1865. It was soon reprinted in newspapers and comic periodicals throughout the nation, was pirated by Beadle's Dime Books, and was later collected with a new title in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and other Sketches (1867). This humorous short story brought Twain his first popular acclaim and has proven to be his first literary masterpiece" (W. Craig Turner in The Mark Twain Encyclopaedia, 1993, pp. 133-5). BAL 3310. Small octavo. Single advert leaf on cream-yellow paper inserted between preliminary flyleaf and title. Original red cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettered spine, front cover lettered in gilt with gilt stamp of jumping frog to lower left and blind to rear cover, brown coated endpapers. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine sometime cleaned, gilt retouched, a few marks to cloth, light wear to extremities, small superficial split to foot of front inner hinge, entirely sound, foxing to outer leaves, otherwise clean. A just about very good copy.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first issue with one page of publisher's preliminary ad leaf facing the title page and unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. Bound in publisher's original pebbled red cloth with beveled edges, titles in gilt on upper board and spine, with frog stamped in gilt on the lower left corner of the upper board and in blind on the lower board. Very Good or better with shallow chipping to spine ends, soiling to cloth. Superficial crack with a possible glue repair to front inner hinge, bookseller tickets to front and rear endsheets, and small stains to rear free endpaper. The author's first published book.