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Laura Bancroft. Sugar Loaf Mountain. The Reilly & Lee Company, Chicago, USA, 1906.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second printing. The author is pseudonym for L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz). Illustrator was the sister of Frank Lloyd Wright. No publication date. 64 pages. This book has been carefully researched. Shelf wear on the edges. Front inside and back pages have coloring marks. Small part of the back cover is missing. Inside the front cover is a nameplate from a previous owner and the handwritten signature by previous owner. Inside cover has handwritten in pencil, a price. Binding is loose but still held together. We have made no attempt to clean this book. Book is scarce and valuable. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Hollow n Hill Books, Yellville, AR, U.S.A.
Laura Bancroft (L. Frank Baum). Sugar Loaf Mountain. The Reilly & Britton, 1906.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Sugar Loaf Mountain" by Laura Bancroft (pseud. of L. Frank Baum). The Reilly & Britton, Chicago. 1906 first American edition, first issue. Book in good condition, in original decorated binding with rubbing to boards and spine, in original red endpapers with gift inscription, 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, minor smudging, complete with all illustrations. The rarest and most sought after of the Twinkle tales.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: .Title Page in Color of Boy & Girl with 2 Soldiers in Red Marching is Titled in Black , All color plates are present and in good shape , Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped light soil,HBDJ, 1906, Early Edition, UNDATED, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, Book is in VG- condition, with a beautiful bright color cover Matches DJ Illustration. Beautiful Bright Color Beige, Original Green Red & Yellow & Blue lightly Rubbed Illustrated ClothCover picture Spine has light wear and a little splitting starting at top and bottom, but is complete and legible. Light edge wear to the cover and corners. All text pages are intact and well attached to the binding. Hinges are unsplit. Pages are clean with no marks or tears light FOX, Wear. A very nice little copy, especially with the dust jacket! GOOD+ Dust jacket repeats the cover design and pretty much almost complete, with just a little chipping at the ends of the spine and along the ends of the inside flap folds Wear & some Splitting at Crease. Also a couple of 1" closed tears (now protected in a mylar cover.) There is also a very small piece of tape residue on the top front--about 2/3" long --not very noticeable at all. BACK DJ LIGHT wear Soil & tiny Chips Tears Extremities,Small 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx, Small Tear front DJ Edge, Spine DJ light Scuff rub, tiny Chips Tears Edges, 64 pgs .Sugar-Loaf Mountain is probably the rarest of the Twinkle Tales, even rarer with the original dust jacket, Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, Frank Lloyd Wright's sister
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.