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Twain. The Jumping Frog,1/50deluxe,1985

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number 5 of 50 deluxe copies signed by the artist and with an additional suite of plates and an etched portrait of the author, from an edition limited to 315, printed in green and black in Centaur and Arrighi types, wood-engraved portrait and illustrations by Alan James Robinson, original quarter green morocco, by Gray Parrot, spine titled in silver, uncut, etching and additional suite of plates all numbered and signed in pencil by the artist, loose with prospectus in original cloth folder, together in cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Easthampton, Mass., Cheloniidae Press, 1985.

***Containing three progressive versions of the tale, the original (published in 1865), translated into French, and then "restored to the English after martryrdom in the French.".

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