including: THE CELEEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, "and Other Sketches, edited by John Paul, New York: C. H. Webb... 1867," lacking publisher's ads, in original cloth with gilt stamped frog and title; two (2) copies of PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! "and Other Sketches, New York: Slote, Woodman & Co.," 1878, 16mo, one with original red paper wraps in a later binding, the other in stamped red cloth; and MARK TWAIN'S (BURLESQUE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FIRST ROMANCE, "New York: Sheldon & Company," 1871, 8vo, in publisher's green stamped cloth, second state (with ad for Ball, Black & Co. on copyright page)

Provenance: Descent through the family of a late Greenwich, CT centenarian

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Jumping Frog fair-good with spine lean, bumped corners, some foxing to pages, and chips at ends of spine; the green Punch volume with a few pages having a large tear in the middle of the book; other volumes very