[Item #56649] The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale. L. Frank BAUM, F. Y. Cory, ill.

The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale

Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, [1901]. First Edition. First printing (with the comma closer to "N.Y." than to "Brooklyn" in the copyright notice), binding A. Octavo (21cm). Original dark green cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, pictorial paper onlay on front; blank endpapers; [xvi],245pp; frontispiece and 12 color plates. Lightly rubbed, both hinges partly cracked, erasures to front free endpapers, two stickers to f.f.e.p. recto and verso, else clean: Good or better.

The story of a boy who, through electrical experimentation, encounters the "Daemon of Electricity," who shares with him miraculous technological/magical gifts. BIENVENUE p.196. BLEILER p.17.

Price: $250.00

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