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Price: US$225.47 + shipping
Description: 22.5cm, 205p., 8 colour plates (including frontis), one full page illustration, text illustrations, green cloth with black titles, a pictorial illustration laid down on upper cover, front free fly has a small splash (not affecting text or binding), a very good to fine copy. (lt).
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Baum, Frank L.. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicagi, 1902.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. to the title page with Copyright 1902, the Bowen Merrill Company printed below. A later edition with Headings listed as Youth, Manhood and Old Age. Very gently read. Neat chronological family gift inscriptions to the ffep as it passed down in the family, otherwise the interior is remarkably clean with the occasional finger smudge or small stain. Dozen or so short tears and couple of longer ones to page extremities throughout, cello tape repair to pp.133/34. Rear board is moderately hinged but very firmly attached. Ten beautiful full colour illustrations with numerous fantastic black and white illustrations to chapter heads and margins throughout. This could be a second or third printing featuring the red cloth boards. They are moderately bumped and rubbed to extremities with some light soiling and fading to show. The full textured Santa illustration to the front board is in very nice condition with some colour loss.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers, (9.25 x 7 inches). First Edition / First State with headings "Book First, Book Second and Book Third." 206 pages; illustrated with 20 plates on glossy stock, including the title page; six in color and 14 in two color. Showing general overall wear, including rubbing of white from front board, spine sunned, fraying at head and tail of spine, hinges starting, internally clean. A desirable, unrestored copy Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this Christmas classic with the first state headings "Book First, Book Second and Book Third." Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery wit Âgilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Six full color plates and illustrations throughout by Mary Cowles Clark. In near fine condition. L. Frank Baum was the first author to write a book entirely about Santa Claus, adding his own mythology to the classic character's origins and adventures.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
BAUM, L. Frank. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. The Bowen-Merrill Co, Indianapolis, 1902.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark. First edition, first printing. Quarto, original red pictorial cloth featuring Santa going down a chimney to front cover, 20 illustrations with 6 in full color and remaining ones two-toned. This copy with correct first issue points with section headings of "Book First", "Book Second" and "Book Third". Known for his Land of Oz, Baum in this story tells the life of Santa and just so happens Santa hails from the same enchanted Forest from which the Land of Oz obtained all its magic from! A very bright copy with just a hint of fading to spine cloth, corners and ends of spine lightly rubbed, white area to roof line illustration on cover with some very mild rubbing, else an excellent copy.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Viii], 206 Pp. Red Cloth Stamped In White, Black, Green, Tan, Off-White. Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing, First State With Sections Titled "First", Etc. Near Fine, Former Owner's Names, "The ----- Girls. " An Exceptionally Well Preserved Example Of The First State Of A Very Scarce And Early Baum Title.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.