Baum Frank Ford (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 656 pages. Includes: Introduction; Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference; ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the Color; Wooden Tony; Lest Levitation Come Upon Us; Prince Bull; The Triumph of Vice; Turandina; The Princess and the Frog; WONDERS: Darkness Box; Jack and the Beanstalk; Peter Pan; The Thrush's Nest; Lock-out Time; The Mouse Festival; A Proper Santa Claus; Inside Out; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime; The Woman Who Thought She Could Read; The Third Level; CREATURES: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles; The Dragons; On the Downhill Side; The Parrot; The Gray Wolf; The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath; The Last of the Dragons; Lila the Werewolf; The Drowned Giant; WORLDS: The Enchanted Buffalo; Narrow Valley; Beyond the Dead Reef; The King's Bride; Under the Garden; ADVENTURES: The Things That Are Gods; The King of Nodland and His Dwarf; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Hollow Land.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. MINIATURE BOOK!!! Published 1959 Signed by Author orange cardboard covers have slight rubbing else about fine.Signed by ford on limitation page one of 500 copies -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors., Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Size: Miniature Book (2 1/2" x 2"). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Miniature book. Gilt-stamped black leather over boards, yellow-tinted paper, 184 pages. This book is number 16 of a limited edition of 750 and is signed by Alla T. Ford. "Three Unpublished Scenarios by the Author of the Wizard of Oz." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 0 oz. Category: Theatre & Plays; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015719.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Octavo. Stapled in unprinted wrappers. Staples oxidized, tiny nick on first (blank) leaf, else near fine. One of 500 copies. This unbound copy, with no signed of ever having been bound, was likely used as a proof for review.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. (not numbered) Inscribed by co-author Martin to Manny Weltman, who himself in 1963 published another Baum musical play not included in this publication. AS IS. The text block is separated from the cardboard cover. The text block is bound with binding thread like a standard book signature, but how it was originally fastened to the cardboard cover is a mystery to this bookseller. The dust jacket wrapped around the cardboard is in very good, almost near fine condition with just a trace of edge wear. Toning to paper, cardboard and dust jacket. No jacket chips. This book reproduces three plays by Baum: Maid of Athens;King of Gee Whiz and Pipes of Pan. It also has a bibliography of Baum which no doubt has been superceded by many later works. Inscribed by Author(s).

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "The Army Cook" depicts a cook with the 71st Brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, who has just prepared a holiday feast for 137 hungry soldiers. This was a rare instance when a Rockwell cover corresponded with an article in the magazine. Features: Desert Battalion - An Army oasis of USO glamour girls invades Palm Springs, with great color photos; The Incredible Earl of Suffolk aka Charles Henry George ("Wild Jack") Howard, twentieth Earl of Suffolk - He lived and died for England (first of two articles); Memphis Yankee - Cotton pickery president Bill Robinson of McCallum and Robinson, Inc. in Tennessee; What's Wrong with our Patent System? - Jerome Frank proposes a plan - patent applied for; I Cheer the Referee - a football referee's wife boos the 60,000 who boo him; Woes of an Army Cook - but Army chow is better these days; Home Front gets Action - Cape Cod's civilian defense faces a real war test - with many color photos. Stories: Courage; Home is a Place; I Should Listen to Mabel!; Second Fiddle; Happy Land; Siren in the Night (part 2 of 6). Nice color-illustrated one-page White Truck ad shows linemen at work in winter storm. One-page B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of construction of the Inter-American Highway. 100 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. 2" x 1" piece missing from back cover along coverfold. A worthy copy of this wonderful WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio.