Mother Goose in Prose illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
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Author: Baum, L. Frank
Title: Mother Goose in Prose
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Way & Williams
Date Published: [1897]
Description:
Author: Baum, L. Frank
Title: Mother Goose in Prose
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Way & Williams
Date Published: [1897]
Description:
265 pp. Title-page in red and black. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish including 12 black & white plates. (4to) original pictorial cloth with color cover designs by Maxfield Parrish, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition, First Printing.
Baum's first children's book and first book of fiction. First printing, with page bearing printer's imprint followed immediately by the rear free endpaper (second printing has two blank leaves preceding the rear endpaper). This is also the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.159.
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Ends and corners worn, light soiling and wear to cloth, front hinge starting; very good.
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Mother Goose in Prose illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
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