John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill. Reilly & Britton 1906 1st edition 1st printing with rare original contest blank. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in red, olive & black; color pictorial endpapers, color and black and white illustrations through. With the rare detachable contest blank for "the Great John Dough Mystery" on yellow/green paper facing p. 8 present (appears to have been reattached). First state, with misprint on p.275, line 10 ("cage" for "cave"); publisher's imprint on spine reads to "The Reilly &/ Britton Co." in small caps; the back cover has a picture of John Dough, Chick the Cherub, and a box on which is lettered "THE GREAT/ JOHN DOUGH/ MYSTERY. Fair amount of wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to spine; binding shaken with hinges 23 cracked, front free endpaper lacking, foxing and some general wear to interior; page 47 badly chipped, about fair to good only. Together with a post 1935 copy in orange cloth, published by Reilly & Lee, without color plates but retaining the color plate on the cover and illustrated endpapers, in very good condition with scraped cover.