American Fairy Tales.
Chicago: George M. Hill Co., 1901. 214 pp. 8vo (215 x 150 mm). Illustrated by Ike Morgan Harry Kennedy and N. P. Hall with decorations by Ralph Flecher Seymour. Publisher’s decorated cloth designed by Seymour, blank endpapers. Condition : hinges cracked, covers faded and rubbed with thumbsoiling and staining; gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. rare first and only edition with the flowers on the spine in red . These up-to-date and sometimes sardonic fairy tales in the manner of George Ade’s Fables in Slang (1899) were first serialized in several Sunday newspapers. Morgan, Kennedy and Seymour were all professional illustrators whom Baum worked with on other projects; N. P. Hall went to high school with Frank J. and Robert S. Baum [With:] The Master Key . An Electrical Fairy Tale. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill Co., [1901]. 245 pp. 8vo (205 x 145 mm). Illustrated by F[anny] Y[oung] Cory. Publisher’s gilt dark green cloth, pictorial label, blind stamped on back, blank endpapers. Condition : label and covers lightly rubbed; previous owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition, first state with eight-page signatures and THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY imprint on the copyright page is 42 mm . Baum dedicated this early example of American juvenile science fiction to his second son Robert, whose interest in electrical gadgetry inspired the story. F.Y. Cory (1877-1972) was a prominent American woman illustrator who frequently contributed to St. Nicholas and other national magazines. She also illustrated Baum’s The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903).
American Fairy Tales.
Chicago: George M. Hill Co., 1901. 214 pp. 8vo (215 x 150 mm). Illustrated by Ike Morgan Harry Kennedy and N. P. Hall with decorations by Ralph Flecher Seymour. Publisher’s decorated cloth designed by Seymour, blank endpapers. Condition : hinges cracked, covers faded and rubbed with thumbsoiling and staining; gift inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. rare first and only edition with the flowers on the spine in red . These up-to-date and sometimes sardonic fairy tales in the manner of George Ade’s Fables in Slang (1899) were first serialized in several Sunday newspapers. Morgan, Kennedy and Seymour were all professional illustrators whom Baum worked with on other projects; N. P. Hall went to high school with Frank J. and Robert S. Baum [With:] The Master Key . An Electrical Fairy Tale. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bowen-Merrill Co., [1901]. 245 pp. 8vo (205 x 145 mm). Illustrated by F[anny] Y[oung] Cory. Publisher’s gilt dark green cloth, pictorial label, blind stamped on back, blank endpapers. Condition : label and covers lightly rubbed; previous owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition, first state with eight-page signatures and THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY imprint on the copyright page is 42 mm . Baum dedicated this early example of American juvenile science fiction to his second son Robert, whose interest in electrical gadgetry inspired the story. F.Y. Cory (1877-1972) was a prominent American woman illustrator who frequently contributed to St. Nicholas and other national magazines. She also illustrated Baum’s The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903).
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