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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Pictorial cloth, with scuffed, edge worn covers. Text is worn, page edges thumbed. Stitching is a bit loose, but it is a fairly solid copy, complete with color illustrations throughout text. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 62 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo.; pictorial boards, hardcover; 62 pages; First book in the Twinkle Tales series; color illustrations by Magnel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister; front hinge is cracked, former owner's name and address on front free endpaper in pencil and back free endpaper is sunned from removed bookplate else very good in edgeworn and soiled boards with corners and spine ends beginning to fray.
Seller: WellRead Books A.B.A.A., Northport, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$460.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1906, 1st Edition, 1st State, GOOD+/VG CONDITION, NOJACKET, SOLD AS-IS, Beige, Green REd & Orange Illustrated ClothCover picture Light Scuff and Spine Titles Slightly Readable, PG 17 has CUT OUT of Margin & Crayon mark in Text, Woodchuck on Front in Black Hat with Orange Cvr light Scuff but Titles Clear, ,Back cover light Soil & very light Stains, Spine Ends light Wear, Interior some loose pages, Occasional small Tears pgs edges , FoXing, light WEAR, Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx, All 14 color plates are present and in good shape , Some pages are loose but all are present. Some pages have a little edge wear and there are finger marks here and there in the margins for the most part. Not perfect but this is a hard book to find in any shape. 62 pgs, This little book is good condition, but is fragile. Original color cover is in very good condition, with bright colors and just a little rubbing. Rare to find these books with intact spines, but this one is unchipped and relatively solid, with a little fading. Page 1-2 (containing the listing of other titles, before the actual title page) is missing, and the first 8 pages or so are loose, just barely attached. All story text pages are included and are in reasonably good shape, but a few have tears at the edges. A 1907 inscription on the front endpaper. A charming and very hard to find little book in any condition!.Title Page in Color of Woodchuck in Hunting Attire red Pants , Boots, & Green Jacket & BLack Hat, RED Card Stock EndpaPers Former Owner Name Date. All coLor plates are present anD in gOoD shape , Scuff to Inner HingE sLight Separation Opposite Title PAGE which has tiny Corner Chip, Chapters Include, Twinkle is Condemned ETC, Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister, Meets all the first edition points listed in the August 1972 Baum Bugle magazine: Hand lettered title page with "The Twinkle Tales" at top, copyright notice under the list of chapters on the back, and inserted red card stock endpapers. Contains 15 full-page and one half-page color illustrations (including title page) by Maginel Wright Enright.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: RED ENDPAPERS. the end pages are attached to the cover front and back. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1906, 1st Edition, , GOOD-/VG CONDITION, NOJACKET, SOLD AS-IS, Beige Illustrated ClothCover picture and spine are well worn and spine in not readable anymore. Woodchuck on Front Cvr Very Scuffed Rubbed, Book block is separated from cover at the end pages,Back cover light Soil & light Stains, Spine Ends small Tears & Darkening, Interior some loose pages, Occasional small tears pgs edges , FoXing, light WEAR, Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx, All 14 color plates are present and in good shape the picture titled "You're a disagreeable creature" at page 34 has a brown stain in the top front corner in margin, not affecting the picture itself. Some pages are loose but all are present. Some pages have a little edge wear and there are finger marks here and there in the margins for the most part. Not perfect but this is a hard book to find in any shape. 62 pgs . All 14 color plates are present and in good shape . Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister, Title Page in Color of Woodchuck in Hunting Attire red Pants , Boots, & Green Jacket & Black Hat,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank; Bancroft, Laura (Pseudonym). Mr. Woodchuck. The Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1906.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. (Bienvenue and Schmidt p. 288.) 62 pp. Original tan cloth with red endpapers. Very Good with former owner's info on front free endpaper, front and rear hinges reinforced, light wear, some tiny pinholes to first six pages or so. A nice copy of a children's book in the Twinkle Tales series written by Oz-creator L. Frank Baum under a pseudonym.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1906, 1ST Edition THUS, , VeryGOOD+/GOOD+ CONDITION, NOJACKET, SOLD AS-IS, SPINESTRIP MISSING Expect Small 1 in. piece, Beige, BlueGreen REd & Yellow Illustrated ClothCover picture Light Scuff Cvr, Colors Bright on Front , Woodchuck on Front in Black Hat with Glasses Cvr light Scuff but Titles Clear, ,Back cover light Soil & very light Stains Light Stains bottom Cvr Front & small Chip by Mr. , Interior , Light FoXing, light WEAR, O/W Very Nice, Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx, Light chipping along Spine edge, All color plates are present and in good shape , . Not perfect but this is a hard book to find in any shape. 62 pgs, Slightly Fragile. Original color cover is in very good condition, with bright colors and just a little rubbing. Page 1-2 (containing the listing of other titles, before the actual title page) small FoX, . All story text pages are included and are in Pretty good shape, A charming and very hard to find little book in any condition!.Title Page in Color of Woodchuck in Hunting Attire red Pants , Boots, & Green Jacket & Black Hat, Blank Endpapers slight FoX. All 14 color plates are present and in good shape , Back of Book The Twinkle Tales at top & Talks about 6 Vols slight Stain Marks, Soil, Chapters include Twinkle is Condemned ETC, Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister, . Contains full-page and one half-page color illustrations (including title page) by Maginel Wright Enright.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3850.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST PRINTING. Set: 12mo, 6.8 in. x 5 in. Illustrated with colored plates. Light tan cloth boards. Hand-lettered stylized text to top line of title pages reads: "The Twinkle Tales". Heavy, blank, red endpapers. Verso of half title pages have list of all six volumes of The Twinkle Tales. Color title with "hand-lettering" style print to top of title page. List of chapters and "Copyright ,1906, by the Reilly & Britton Co." on verso of title page. (Bienvenue 288). Tan boards with illustrations and lettering stamped in color to fronts and spines. Light rubbing and soiling to all boards. The front boards and interior pages of all six titles are sharp and bright. BANDIT JIM CROW: Bottom corners nudged. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1913, to half title. Hinge showing, but holding, at page 8. Scattered dark stains to rear board. Condition: Good Plus. MR. WOODCHUCK: Corners nudged. Previous owner's name, dated 1906, to front free endpaper. Condition: Very Good. PRAIRIE-DOG TOWN: A few scuffs to front picture. Front upper corner nudged. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper and half title.Condition: Very Good. PRINCE MUDTURTLE: Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Front corners nudged, and corners just showing. A couple small chips to top/bottom of spine. Condition: Good Plus. SUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN: Front bottom corner nudged. Hinges repaired, but text block uneven. Condition: Good Plus. TWINKLE'S ENCHANTMENT: Previous owner's name, dated 1911, to front free endpaper. Three corners nudged. Hinge showing, but holding, at page 32. Condition: Good Plus. Complete set of first editions, first printings, published in 1906. Subsequent titles to the set were published in later years.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First editions, foolscap 8vo (6 7/8" x 5"), pp. 62+ (1)printer device + (1) blank; 62+(1)+(1) blank, (1)-26, 31-58; 61+ (3) blank; 64; 64; 71 full page color illustrations. First printings each with red card endpapers, half titles with the list of the six volumes of The Twinkle Tales on the reverse, & color titles from hand lettering with List of Chapters and "Copyright 1906." on the reverse. Original color pictorial beige cloth. (Copies of these original six titles with out the point above or in paper covered boards or with Reilly & Lee imprints are later editions in all cases). Unusually clean bright near fine color pictorial cloth with slight rubbing here & there but with no chipping, very good corners & bright colors. Prairie-Dog Town which is incomplete lacking two sheets (pp. 27-31) & ends at p. 58, thus lacking the final pages is included here because it came with the rest, but it is not a factor in the pricing of the group. The other five titles are complete & have occasional spots or stains & some minor defects. There is a torn off lower corner of 1/2" only & a crease at p. 27 of Mr. Woodchuck; a mostly marginal tear of 1" at p. 17 & a mostly marginal tear with loss slightly affecting the text of p. 20 of Sugar-Loaf Mountain; a lower margin 3/8" tear at the half-title & associated lower margin edge nicks to the following few sheets & a dog eared lower margin corner at p.15 of Twinkle's Enchantment. H9228
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.