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The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County : and other sketches / by Mark Twain ; edited by John Paul.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS1322 .C4 1867c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humorous stories, American.
- Genre:
- Mystery and detective fiction -- United States.
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Yellowbacks.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- West, Harry F. (donor)
- Hay, Robert H. (bookplate)
- W.H. Smith & Son (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Celebrated jumping frog
- Place of Publication:
- London : G. Routledge and Sons, 1867.
- Contents:
- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County
- Aurelia's unfortunate young man
- A complaint about correspondents, dated in San Francisco
- Answers to correspondents
- Among the Fenians
- The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief
- Curing a cold
- An inquiry about insurances
- Literature in the dry diggings
- "After" Jenkins
- Lucretia Smith's soldier
- The killing of Julius Caesar, "localized"
- An item which the editor himself could not understand
- Among the spirits
- Brief biographical sketch of George Washington
- A touching story of George Washington's boyhood
- A page from a Californian almanac
- Information for the million
- The launch of the steamer "Capital"
- Origin of illustrious men
- Advice for good little girls
- Concerning chambermaids
- Remarkable instances of presence of mind
- Honoured as a curiosity in Honolulu
- The steed, "Oahu"
- A strange dream
- Short and singular rations.
- Notes:
- Chiefly short stories.
- Issued in illustrated paper wrappers.
- Publisher's advertisements at beginning and end of volume, including inside front and back wrappers.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1985 by Harry F. West.
- Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of Robert H. Hay affixed to p. [iii]; blind stamp of W.H. Smith and Son on inside back wrapper.
- Penn Libraries copy has illustrated paper slip (which reads: THE BROADWAY A Monthly Magazine.") tipped in before title leaf.
- Penn Libraries copy: front wrapper detached.
- OCLC:
- 16012900
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