The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County (First Printing, Second Issue) by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] - 1867

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, 1922. First Thus . Cloth. Very Good+++/No Dust Jacket. 9 3/8" Tall. 351 Clean And Unmarked Pages. First Printing Thus. Cover Paste-Down Illustration On The Book Still Unworn And Brilliantly Colored. Laid In Loosely In The Book Is A Fine Four-Page Brochure Printed In Black And Yellow, For A Ballad "Lorna Doone" Published By Witmark, With Actress Madge Bellamy On The Cover, In The Same Pose As On The Paste-Down Illustration On The Book Cover. Bellamy's Breakout Role Was As The Title Character In The 1922 Film Adaptation Of The 1869 Novel Lorna Doone She Thereafter Became Known As "The Exquisite Madge" (Artist Penrhyn Stanlaws Later Called Her "The Most Beautiful Girl In America"),[Wikipedia]. This Copy With The Standard Printed Inscription, Plus A Handwritten Personal Inscription By Madge Bellamy To Motion Picture Editor/Writer Le Roy Stone, And With His Small Library Stamp On One Of The Interior Rear… Read More

London: W. Simpkin And R. Marshall, 1836. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Complete In Four Volumes. Ornate Vellum Gilt Bindings, Spines With Black Morocco Labels And Entirely Tooled, Volume Number On Morocco Label At Bottom With"Lond. 1836" On Another Brown Morocco Label, Gilt Floral Border On All Covers. Matching Marbled Endpapers And Marbled Ends Of Page Blocks. Armorial Bookplate Of Robert Washington Oates, No Other Names Or Marks Or Damage.

Boston: James R. Osgood And Company, 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece Portrait. (Xvii), 261 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Light Wear, Gilt Fairly Bright, A Little Bubbling Of Cloth, A Few Pinpoint Frays At Edges, Rear Hinge Cracked (Due To Bancroft's Personal Envelope With Thick Enclosures Tipped To Rear Endpaper), Pages Clean But A Little Aged. Ownership Signature Of Textile Manufacturer Samuel Bancroft, Jr., Of Rockford Mills, Delaware, Dated 11/22/81, And With His Large And Elaborate Heraldic Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Also With A Seven Page Holograph Letter From Alfred Darbyshire To His Cousin Bancroft, Dated September 11, 1881, Apparently In Response To Inquiries From Bancroft, Providing A Summary Of Everything Darbyshire Knew Of Mrs. Ward, Her Family And Background, And Her Current Activities. Also Included Is Bancroft's Copy Of An August 26, 1879 Cable From Ward To Derbyshire Accepting The Invitation To Speak At A Calvert Benefit; Also A Note From L.… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1853. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 306 Pp. + 6 Pp Ads, Complete Wrappers (Red, Printed In Black, With Spine And Both Panels, 5 Titles And 4 Forthcoming Titles On Rear Panel) Bound In At Rear. First Edition, Three Quarter Red Morocco, 5 Compartments, Gilt, Marbled Paper Boards And Endpapers, Top Edge Gilt. Bookplate Of Pre-Eminent Thackeray Collector Henry S. Van Duzer, Designed By Tiffany & Co.; His Thackeray Library Went To Auction In 1917. Binding With Slight Rubbing, Tight And Clean And Unfaded; Wrappers Almost Unbelievably Clean, As New, Bound In At Rear.

John Murray , 1835. First Hardcover Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Two Volumes. Simple Half-Title Followed By Table Of Contents In Each Volume, 53 In First Volume And 67 In The Second Volume; Originally Issued In 24 Parts 1833-1834 With 120 Plates In Total, Then This Issue With All Plates Bound In Two Volumes, Then Later The Complete Set Of 123 Plates With 3 Vignettes Was Published In 3 Volumes And Still Later Enlarged To 126 And Then 130 Illustrations And Incorporated Into Sets With Explanatory Text Included. Full Black Calf, With "Illustrations Of Byron" And Volume Numbers On Spine In Gilt, Covers And Spine Elaborately Stamped In Blind, Yellow Silk Endpapers. No Text. Slight Wear At Lower Edges And Corners, And Fresh, But Volume I Has A1/2" X 1/2" Chip At Upper Right Corner Of Spine, And Volume Ii Has A 1" X 3/4" Chip Which Is Detached And Laid In Loosely. No Marks, But Gift Card Of Mrs. Hosmer A. Johnson, Dated In 1899, To Her Granddaughter. Hosmer Allen Johnson,… Read More

Philadelphia: J B Lippincott & Co [1871], 1872. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Green Cloth, Gilt. Very Good +. 6 7/8' Tall. 203 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt And Black Lettering And Design, Two Blank Front Free Endpapers, Two Blank Rear Free Endpapers, The Elaborate Green Cloth Binding Being Very Similar To Strahan's 1871 London First Edition And The 1871 Routledge New York Printing, But With No Publisher's Name At Base Of Spine, And Lippincott Name And 1872 Date On Title Page [The Actual Publication Date Of This Lippincott Edition Is Cited As December 1871, And, As Lippincott Was Strahan's American Publisher At This Time, It Seems Likely That This Edition Is The First Authorized American Edition]. The Strahan Edition Has "Goblin" On Spine And Cover In Black, But In The Routledge And This Lippincott Edition That Word On The Spine Is In Gilt.] 30 B/W Illustrations In The Text, Half-Page At Center Of Pages, Signed With The Dalziels' Name [In Plural] And Hughes' Initials. Very… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. Second Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good. Viii, 199 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition Stated. One Of Ruskin's More Important Books. This Copy Inscribed By Ruskin (In His Hand) At Top Of Title Page : " 'Lizzie' With John Ruskin's Affectionate Regards.1869." Shortly After This Edition Was Published, A Distraught And Somewhat Incoherent Dante Gabrielle Rossetti Disinterred His Late Wife, Ruskin's Protege, Who Was Called "Lizzie" By Ruskin And Others Prior To Her Death, On Which Occasion This Book May Have Been Inscribed; But Perhaps Ruskin Was Then Well Acquainted With Another "Lizzie" Altogether.

London: Hurst and Blackette, 1899. First Edition . Half Morocco. Very Good +. Frontispiece, Plates. Xii, 312. Finely Bound In Red Half Morocco, Red Cloth, Five Raised Bands, Gilt Lettering, Brown Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt Tooling In Other Compartments, Tooled Edges On Boards, Top Edge Gilt. Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant, Minute Losses Of Leather At Corners With Professional Repairs, 1/2" X 3/16" Light Stain On Cloth Of Front Board. Marbled Endpapers, Hinges Tight, Browning At Edges Of Corners Of Endpapers. Contents Fine. Inscribed By The Author To ---- Simpson, Dated In April 1899. Pencil Ownership Signature On Free Endpaper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 7 13/16" Tall. Photographs and Drawings. Xi, 300 Pp + 4 Pp Ad For "How The Other Half Lives" At Rear. Original Violet Cloth, Lettered In Gilt, With Additional Purple Lettering And Design. First Edition. A Worn But Solid Example Of An Important Book, Presenting The Author's Observations Of Slum Life In New York City, Following His 1890 Book On The Same Subject. Certainly No Comparable Books On 2023 Slum Life Anywhere, As The Total Situation Of The Population At The Bottom Of Wealth Measures Largely Slips Out Of Public Sight. Cloth With Light Wear, Frays Near Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Two Front Tips And For 1/2" Along Top Edge Of Front Board Adjacent To The Spine, Gilt Lettering Still Bright, Purple Lettering Strong Except Middle Two Letters Of Publisher's Name On Spine Are Weak. All Illustrations And Photographs Present, All Pages Solidly Attached, Binding And Hinges Are Solid.… Read More

New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1879. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Viii, 9-217 + 6 Pp Carleton Catalog At End, Dated 1879. Brown Cloth, Stamped In Black, Light Blue Endpapers. Inscribed By The Author To Her Grandfather, Rev. Herman Halsey, Also With Ownership Signature Of Minnie Halsey At Top Of Preliminary Blank. Semi-Autobiographical Midwestern Novel About Two Young Women Who, Like The Author, Eventually Make Their Living Working In Wood. Scarce; Worldcat Shows Only Four Institutional Holdings. Very Clean, No Fading, Wear At Corners With A Few Tiny Frays At Lower Corners, Hinges Tight, No Stains, No Other Marks. Per Wikipedia: Calista Halsey Patchin (1845 -1920) Was A Journalist And Artist Based In Washington, D.C. And Des Moines, Iowa. Patchin Was The First Woman Reporter Hired By The Washington Post Newspaper In 1878. She Was The Daughter Of Samuel Halsey, A Newspaper Man. Patchin Was Educated In Ohio And Albany, New York. She Studied Wood Carving At The Cincinnati School… Read More