Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$50.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Archival reprint.
Seller: GREAT PACIFIC BOOKS, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
L. Frank Baum. The Army Alphabet. Geo M. Hill, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The Army Alphabet by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Harry Kennedy. Published by Geo. M. Hill Company; 1900; Sadly Overall: a fair copy, lots of external edge wear, and Basically All pages are loose; they are all accounted for; however, one initial leaf has damage this book needs love, for it has been loved so much by many. but very rare book!
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. The Army Alphabet. Geo. M. Hill Company Publishers, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto, illustrated boards, unpaginated, blue cloth spine. Notable wear to all boards, bumped corners, blue cloth at spine beginning to fray. Both hinges well worn, but stable. Complete with 29 illustrated plates. Child's signature front end paper, pencil marks throughout. Text was written by Frank L. Baum, illustrated by Harry Kennedy and colored by Charles J. Costello. This is one of two alphabet books written by Frank Baum, before he published the Wizard of Oz.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. The Army Alphsbet. Geo. M. Hill Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The cover shows wear especially on the corners. The spine is a little loose, but the text and illustrations remain in fine condition. A sought after and unique item.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
L. Frank Baum. The Army Alphabet. Geo. M. Hill Company, Chicago, 1900.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition of this uncommon children's alphabet book, 1900. VG in its pictorial boards with somewhat soiled endsheets but generally very clean chromolithographed plates. Tall quarto, 28 sumptuous, full-color plates. Text to each plate provided by the incomparable L. Frank Baum, who in this very same year published his first Oz book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Beautifully illustrated by Harry Kennedy, "this book was illumined and hand lettered by Charles J. Costello"
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. THE ARMY ALPHABET. Geo. M. Hill Company, Publishers, Chicago; New York, 1900.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Baum, L. Frank. THE ARMY ALPHABET; verse by L. Frank Baum; pictures by Harry Kennedy. Chicago; New York: Geo. M. Hill Company, Publishers, 1900, (1900). FIRST EDITION. Folio - 12-9/16" x 10-7/16". Blue cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with very minor wear to the extremities and minor abrasions to front and back covers for what is an amazingly nice copy of the book. Plain endpapers with a small area of discoloration on both free endpapers. [30] leaves printed rectos only. A children's alphabet, told in verse, based on all things Army, e.g., A: represents the Army, B: represents the Bayonet, C: represents the tin Canteen, etc.; color title-page drawing and twenty-eight full page color drawings by Kennedy illustrate Baum's Army-centric rhymes; leaf [30] states, "This book was illumined and hand lettered by Charles J. Costello"; 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.