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"The Man Fairy (A Story for Children)."
In The Ladies’ World , December 1910, pp. 26-28. (415 x 285 mm). Condition : spine rubbed and marginal tears, pp. 23-26 detached. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. [With:] “The Tramp and the Baby” in The Ladies’ World , October 1911, pp. 4, 34. (415 x 285 mm). Condition : creased and discolored along the fold, some soiling and marginal tears. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. [And:] “Bessie’s Fairy Tale,” in The Ladies’ World , December 1911, pp. 32-33, “Twenty-Fifth Birthday Number.” (415 x 285 mm). Condition : wrappers discolored, worn. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. Baum rarely sold stories to the magazines, but the editor Charles Dwyer was trying to raise the quality of the literature in this five-cent monthly and bought several by the famous author of the Oz Books. Dwyer had previously serialized “Animal Fairy Tales” in The Delineator when he was that magazine’s editor-in-chief. The more interesting of the three stories, “Bessie Fairy Tale,” contains references to Prince Marvel from The Enchanted Island of Yew , the Bossie-Cow from Father Goose, His Book and the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz . The same issue contains Johnny Gruelle’s “Tommy Grasshopper’s Pennies or How Willie Ladybug Happens to Have the Little Pennies on His Back,” pp. 34-35.