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Magic
Wand Series (Series 129)
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."
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Magic Wand Binding
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Magic Wand Frontis
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Magic Wand Endpages
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Magic Wand Flyer
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Magic Wand Flyer
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Format 1
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