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1901. Hardcover. Good. 1901 pictoral Hardcover Good condition very nice first edition loose binding but good, neat illustrations d6 blue picture cover No dj wear at corners some pages light stains pictures by Mabel Tibbitts Contents: Annie's Home, Annie's Friends and Pets, The Rescue of the Youn Prarie Dog, Pete Pumpernickel tells about Fairies, Annie's seventh Birthday, The Prarie Dog Sings a Funny Song, Annie is taken to Gnome King's Palace, etc....255 pgs Young Adult Fiction Holidays Halloween

Chicago: Robt. Smith Publishing Company, 1901. 256 pp. Original blue cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine sunned. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Edges of leaves toned. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Mabel Tibbitts. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago, IL: Robt. Smith Printing Co.. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1901). ........ Hardcover Cloth. 8vo., 256 pp., Blue colored cover is faded at the edges, and has a picture in red and yellow of a girl holding a cat on front cover and a fairy on the back cover. Inscription of previous owner and Day's Fair stamped with ink on front endpiece. .

1901. GIBSON, Eva Katharine. ZAUBERLINDA: The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robt. Smith Printing Co., 1901. 256pp. Bound in blue cloth with two-color illustration to boards and spine. Front hinge cracked at interior. Interiors are clean and bright with illustrations surrounding the text of each page in alternating colors. A very good copy.

GIBSON, Eva Katharine. Zauberlinda The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robert Smith Printing Co [1901]. 8vo, 258pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in yellow and orange. Pictorial endpapers with fixed sheets printed with an orange background; illustrations in one-color on every page with text in black. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, covers slightly so, spine lightly sunned, a few pages slightly soiled in margins, else an unusually clean, tight copy.
First edition. A very early Oz imitation, being released just a year after the publication of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had been the best-selling children's book of 1900). The book features a style imitating the format of the first Oz novel, with line drawings printed in a variety of colors appearing over and around the text of the novel, just as in The Wizard. Gibson's tale is also very reminiscent of Baum's, telling of an isolated little girl on the prairie who is transported into a realm of magic and danger, only to have to find her… Read More