[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. BAUM, L. Frank ("Laura Bancroft") (1856-1919). [The Twinkle Tales Series:] Mr. Woodchuck -- Bandit Jim Crow -- Prairie-Dog Town -- Prince Mud-Turtle -- Sugar-Loaf Mountain -- Twinkle's Enchantment. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1906.

6 works in 6 volumes, 8vo. (Light offsetting.) Publisher's pictorial boards (minor restoration to a few endpapers, light rubbing and toning, spine split in Twinkle's Enchantment); folding case. Provenance: Gift inscriptions.

FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES with red card endpapers. The Twinkle Tales were published under the pen name "Laura Bancroft" in part to disguise the fact that at the time of their initial publication in 1906 L. Frank Baum was one of only a few authors under contract to publishers Frank Kennicott Reilly and Charles Britton; Baum would publish under five different pen names in addition to his own that year. Bienvenue & Schmidt, 288.