Twinkle and Chubbins. Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1911. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover.
Original yellow cloth pictorially stamped in black, green and red; professionally rebacked, new endpapers. 8vo; 7.75 inches tall; 384 pp. full page illustrations in color and b/w by Maginel Wright Enright. [sister of Frank Llyod Wright. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with age appropriate hand-soiling. Faint eraser of previous name on front free endpage.
Very Good / No Dust Jacket. Item #013211
One of the Rarest Baum Titles, using the Laura Bancroft Pseudonym.
The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six stories were issued in separate booklets by Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton, with illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright.
In 1911, the six eight-chapter stories were collected as Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland which is a misnomer, since Chubbins appears in only two stories and few are set in 'Nature-Fairyland'.
The individual stories are as follows:
Mr. Woodchuck;
Bandit Jim Crow;
Prairie-Dog Town;
Prince Mud-Turtle;
Twinkle's Enchantment;
Sugar-Loaf Mountain.
REF: Hathi; Bienvenue & Schmidt, 290; Carpenter, 50; wiki Thompsom 158.
Price: $650.00
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