BAUM, L. FRANK. MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE. Frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 11 plates by Maxfield Parrish. 4to, original pictorial

cloth, spine a little darkened with some fraying at ends; hinges cracked, a few pages becoming loose, a few marginal chips or tears, owner's inscription on front free endpaper; 1/2 morocco folding case. Chicago: Way and Williams, (1897) FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with gatherings of 8 leaves, except for the final two (which are gathered in 4 leaves and 2 leaves respectively), and the terminal leaf concluding on page [268]. Baum's first published juvenile and the first book with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. "In the last story, entitled "Little Bun Rabbit," Baum introduces a little farm girl named Dorothy -- perhaps the heroine who travelled from Kansas to Oz three years later." -- Swann/Schiller, 4. Baughman 44; The Baum Bugle Spring 1966, page 14.