L. Frank Baum. Mother Goose in Prose. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis IN, 1905.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Children. Early printing. Beat up copy, electrical tape repairs on the spine, nearly disbound but somehow holding together, some pages loose. 11 of 12 sepia tone plates present, missing "The Man in the Moon", frontis plate "There was a little man, and he had a little gun" is loose and tattered around the edges. Priced for damage.

Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.

BAUM, L. Frank ( Maxfield PARRISH ). Mother Goose In Prose. Bobbs-Merrill Co, Indianapolis, 1905.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Description: Presumed Fourth Edition, printed circa 1923 (with Christmas 1923 gift inscription at front pastedown). Original green illustrated cloth and dustjacket, small quarto. All red printed Parrish plates accounted for. A lovely bright copy, almost Near Fine but for old, child's homemade, bookplate at front pastedown, tipped in title and frontis pages detached but easily reinserted, in Good only dustjacket, lacking top third of rear panel and spine and somewhat less at front panel.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.