Twain's First Book

The Celebrated Jumping frog of calaveras county

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.  Publsiher's original green cloth, with gilt-stamped frog on the front board.

​A Rare piece of Twain ephemera

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     This tiny sixteen page pamphlet, measuring only 2 1/2 x 3 inches​, was printed to help promote Twain's novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson."    It was originally published in 1894.  This 1897 reprint is arguably scarcer than the first printing.