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Price: US$45.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A delightful look into a child's world in the late 19th early 20th century. Modern undated reprint in full color. Glossy card covers with a cloth spine. 30 pages, soft cover edition. Shows all the things the sailors must due to keep their ship a float, chores, and rank. Very good, like new condition. Minimal wear from being moved around the shop. Wonderful gift idea, even if it's for yourself. Great military navy sailor, soldiers, ocean voyager theme. All aspects of Navy life at the late 19th early 20th century. ABOUT: Each letter is illustrated with a description of something in the U. S. Navy related to that letter. The book also contains the complete Nato phonetic alphabet (you know, alpha, bravo, charlie, etc.) ~ We appreciate your consideration of one of our books, art prints or novelty items. We strive to offer fast, courteous and professional service to all our patrons. Reading is one of life's great pleasures. Please inquire for further details, our items arrive shrink wrapped and well packed. ~ Thank you for viewing and stopping by. 30 p.
Seller: GREAT PACIFIC BOOKS, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank.. The Navy Alphabet.. Chicago: George M. Hill., 1900.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Folio. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. 31 leaves. Illustrated by Harry Otis Kennedy. First and only edition of this early work by Baum. It was published, along with its companion volume, The Army Alphabet, to coincide with the 34th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic which took place in Chicago. This is a complete copy with all 28 color pictorial plates, the title page lettered in color and both front and rear blanks. The covers are soiled with some heavy chipping and edgewear. The text is good with some soiling in the margins, a few short edge tears and a few detached pages. The plates for the letters D, E & H have some heavy edge-chipping as do Y-Z and the last illustrated page. The chipping is in the margins and does not affect any of the color images themselves. In addition, plate E has a 3-inch closed tear at the left side and a tape repair to the reverse side at the top. Scarce.
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Verse by L. Frank Baum. 29 leaves printed on rectos only. Pictures by Harry Kennedy. Lettered by Charles Costello. Illustrated in color throughout. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color front and rear. First edition. Lacking front free endpaper and another leaf at front (the first leaf present is the title page); edgewear to the title leaf at fore-edge; contents otherwise nice. The binding is very worn at corners with overall soiling and use.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaged [29 leaves]. Illus. with color drawings. 4to. [32 x 24.5 cm.]. Lettered by Charles Costello. Rebound in maroon cloth with cloth backstrip. Contains illustrated title leaf, illustrated copyright leaf, plus 25 [of 27] original leaves + 2 in color facsimile. Ex-library copy with inked handwritten call number on free front endpaper and copyright page, else no other markings; title page creased and reinforced with tape at hinge and rebacked along all edges, cello-tape repair to verso of copyright page near the inner margin, occasional tape repairs in the lower margin of leaves all but one not affecting images. Some finger soiling to the outer margins, otherwise all pictures are still quite bright. An elusive title in any condition.
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First and only edition. 32 x 22cm. 29 leaves. Red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Some wear and paper loss along edges of boards, some mottling to spine, otherwise a bright clean copy. Gift inscription on flyleaf.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 31.3 x 25.5 cm. 27 color plates printed recto only. First and only edition of this rare oversized fragile picture book. "A" is for Admiral George Dewey, the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. Although issued simultaneously with The Army Alphabet and likely in the same printing, The Navy Alphabet has proven to be rarer than its companion. Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1903. Small book label of Floeser & Co. Brooklyn Book Store. Solid copy, plates bright and sharp, wear to corners and backstrip extremities. Smudges to pastedown rear endpaper. BIENVENUE & SCHMIDT. p.182. Orig. illustrated boards, maroon cloth spine. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. THE NAVY ALPHABET. George M. Hill Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First and only edition of this rare alphabet book, published the same year as Baum's breakout WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Early in 1900, Baum and Denslow's illustrated book of rhymes, FATHER GOOSE, became a surprise breakout hit as the best-selling picture book of the year. Its success paved the way for four more books by Baum the same year, including the NAVY ALPHABET and THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. The luscious color plates of the NAVY ALPHABET, and indeed, the entire conceit of the work, was meant to piggyback on the success of Baum's book before Baum's meteoric rise as the creator of Oz. Very scarce in this condition. 12.25'' x 10''. Original quarter red cloth, paper pictorial boards. Leaves printed on rectos only, each with a large color-printed illustration by Harry Kennedy below alphabetical text in verse lettered by Charles Costello. Slight cover soil, edges rubbed a bit as usual, front hinge and corner of front blank endpaper repaired; a bit of marginal soiling here and there, else a nice clean copy.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. THE NAVY ALPHABET. George M. Hill Company, Publishers, Chicago; New York, 1900.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Baum, L. Frank. THE NAVY ALPHABET; verse by L. Frank Baum; pictures by Harry Kennedy; lettering by Charles Costello. Chicago; New York: George M. Hill Company, Publishers, 1900, (1900). FIRST EDITION. Folio - 12-5/8" x 10-7/16". Blue cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with very minor wear to the extremities for what is an exceptionally nice copy of the book. Rosy brown cloth covered collector's folding box with color pictorial decoration and lettering to front cover and lettering to spine. Plain endpapers. [29] leaves printed rectos only. A children's alphabet, told in verse, based on all things Navy, e.g., A: here is the Admiral, B: here we see the Bulwarks, C: this noble ship's a Cruiser, etc.; color title-page drawing and twenty-eight full page color drawings by Kennedy illustrate Baum's Navy-centric rhymes; internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. SCARCE; especially in such nice condition.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.