Author: Baum, L. Frank, verse; and Kennedy, Harry, pictures
Title: The Navy Alphabet
Description: Chicago / New York, George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition. Cloth. Unpaged [29 leaves]. Illus. with color drawings. 4to. [32 x 24.5 cm.]. Lettered by Charles Costello. Rebound in maroon cloth with cloth backstrip. Contains illustrated title leaf, illustrated copyright leaf, plus 25 [of 27] original leaves + 2 in color facsimile. Ex-library copy with inked handwritten call number on free front endpaper and copyright page, else no other markings; title page creased and reinforced with tape at hinge and rebacked along all edges, cello-tape repair to verso of copyright page near the inner margin, occasional tape repairs in the lower margin of leaves all but one not affecting images. Some finger soiling to the outer margins, otherwise all pictures are still quite bright. An elusive title in any condition.

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