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Lot 15
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$600 -
800
Price Realized
$3,575
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Lot Description
BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale... Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1901.
8vo. Numerous illustrations, some in color by F.Y. Cory. (Small marred area on half-title and opposite leaf, affecting first line of inscription.) Original gilt-lettered olive cloth, color pictorial label affixed to upper cover (rubbing to edges, front joint cracked, lacking front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, second issue with the comma correctly placed on the last line of the copyright. INSCRIBED BY BAUM on the half-title. Schiller's "binding A" with Bowen-Merrill imprint on spine. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.196; Schiller 77.
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