Henry Altemus Company - Magic Wand Series 129

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Magic Wand Series
1905 - 1905
Fairy Tales

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129
6
1

	Title:	Author:	Year:	Illustrator:
1	Magic Wand	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.
2	Romero and Julietta	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.
3	Magician for One Day	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.
4	Prince and the Dragons	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.
5	Timothy's Magical Afternoon	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.
6	Rescue Syndicate	Jenks, Tudor	1905	Neill, John R.

Henry Altemus Company
Cloth with book appropriate multicolored illustrations on the cover. Brown endpapers with line drawn illustrations of children playing. Dust jacket (uncoated brown) matches the book. 6 x 4.5.

Series Notes:
1. Scarce and valuable series because of the John R. Neill illustrations.

Endpaper		Advertising Flyer	Dust Jacket

#1 Earliest	#1 Early	#1 Later	#2

#2 Later	#3	#4	#4 Later

#5	#6	#6 Later

Advertising Flyer

An advertising flyer for the Magic Wand Series (#129) has been discovered.

This 6 volume collection of books is very special. Tudor Jenks wrote the books and John R. Neill, the Oz illustrator, illustrated them. The Neill pictures have made these books very collectable and much more valuable than many other Altemus published fairy tale books. Of course, this is also true for the Neill illustrated books of the 6 volume Fairy Tale Series (#84) which was published in 1906.

The Magic Wand books are 6” x 4.5” and were published in only one format although some of the books have been seen with different cloth pictorial covers. Brown colored endpapers were noted (see below). The volumes were all priced at 50 cents.

From the Altemus catalogue: "These stories are bright, humorous, and especially clever in text and illustration. They are fresh examples of the author’s delicate flights of fancy."

Magic Wand Binding

Magic Wand Frontis

Magic Wand Endpages

Magic Wand Flyer

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