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Frank Baum 1st Ed 1906 Prince Mudturtle NO RESERVE
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GBP 350.00 |
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GBP 350.00 |
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 |
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 |
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There is no reserve on this book to give averybody a shot of owning a wonderful item. I also have 'Sugar Loaf Mountain' for sale on EBAY so enjoy! Part of the "Twinkle Tale Series - [Mr Woodchuck, Bandit Jim Crow, Prairie Dog Town, Sugar Loaf Mountain and Twinkles Enchantment] - Red endpapers with (red) FFEP missing - The text block is loose from the Spine BUT a good book repairer can put this right 61 pages with a beautiful coloured title and fourteen coloured plates by Maginel Wright Enright, Beige Yellow & Blue & Brown Illustrated Cover Boards with Boy Prince with Butterfly Wings & Mud-Turtle in Circle One or two short marginal tears, a few light spots, presentation inscription but with original coloured pictorial cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed A Little History about the man - "Lyman Frank Baum is born in Chittennango, NY - His father is a barrel maker, who subsequently goes into the oil business and becomes wealthy. As a young boy and then teenager he starts up several newspapers and a magazine. In his late teens he becomes interested in the theatre, and his father gives him a number of theaters and operas in New York and Pennsylvania to manage. Writes and publishes a successful musical play, "The Maid of Arran" - Marries Maud Gage whoose mother is a leading figure in the Women's Rights Movement of the time, and a close associate of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony For several years he operates a store, "Baum's Bazaar." which falls victim to hard times in 1890, so he turns to running the local weekly newspaper, "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer." When the newspaper fails, Frank and family move to Chicago where he takes a job as a reporter for the "Evening Post." To make ends meet he also works as a traveling salesman for a china company. He develops characters and situation outlines while on these trips to help him with story telling to his children when back at home. Teamed with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, he publishes "Father Goose, His Book." It is an instant success becoming the best selling childrens book of the year. The Baum-Denslow team produce another best seller, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Having produced the nation's best selling childrens book for two years running, Baum's reputation as a writer is firmly established. Baum and Denslow team up with Paul Tietjens and Julien Mitchell to produce an "adultized" version of the Wizard of Oz as a musical extravaganza stage play. It becomes a major hit, touring the nation, and having a 293 night run on Broadway (1902 through 1911) Frank Baum and his family move to Hollywood, California. (His home there becomes known as "Ozcot".) He continues to write and publish childrens books. With several business associates, Baum forms the Oz Film Manufacturing Company. Their studio is located next to the Universal Film Company. They make a number of films based on the Oz books, but the movie audiences judge them to be for children and the films are not successful. At this early stage of the motion picture industry a children's market has not yet developed. In effect, Baum was before his time! So the Oz Film Manufacturing Company was sold to Universal - In failing health, Baum continues to write more childrens books, include one Oz story each year - L. Frank Baum dies on 5 May, leaving America bereft of its most beloved storyteller of the time. His last book, "Glinda of Oz," is posthumously published in 1920 - Such is the man. - This book is rare - please ask for SCANNED images.
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