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[Parrish, Maxfield] Baum, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose. Fine First Edition
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM ET
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[Parrish, Maxfield] Baum, L. Frank. Mother Goose in Prose

Chicago: Way and Williams, (1897). First edition, second printing (with two blank leaves following imprint at rear). 4to. (ii), 265 pp. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Publisher's grey pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, color cover design by Parrish, spine toned, light rubbing to extremities; small book-plate on front paste-down; in cloth fall-down-back box. Bienvenue & Schmidt, 159

An unusually fine first edition of L. Frank Baum's first children's book, and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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