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Louis F. Baum's Popular Songs As Sung with Immense Success In His Great 5 Act Irish Drama Maid of Arran.
New York: J. G. Hyde, 1882]. 16 pp. Folio (340 x 255 mm). Color lithographed self-wrappers. Condition : some splitting at fold edges, back wrapper with occasional light staining. rare pamphlet of songs with music and lyrics by l. frank baum, march 14, 1883 . Except for some privately printed juvenilia, this was the first separate publication issued under Baum’s authorship. As “Louis F. Baum,” the future children’s book writer earned his earliest national recognition as the author and star of the mildly successful Irish melodrama Maid of Arran , based on William Black’s popular Scottish novel A Princess of Thule (1873). On the second leg of the national tour, Baum had printed up a collection of the six of the songs in the show all composed by the author and star himself to be sold in the lobby of the theater where the play was appearing. Baum as Hugh Holcomb, “the fair-haired stranger,” sang “Waiting for the Tide to Turn” (pp. 2-3). The back wrapper was blank so the new location could be added as the troupe went from town to town. Only a few copies of this fragile pamphlet are known to have survived, two institutions. Not in Schiller 1978.