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Lot 183
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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$600 -
900
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$3,175
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Lot Description
[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.