BAUM, L. FRANK. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS. Illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark, mostly in color. Square 8vo, original

pictorial cloth, spine ends and fore-corners a little worn; blue ink stain on fore edge and edge of rear cover; a little shaken. Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., (1902) FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with section headings as "Book First," "Book Second," and "Book Third"; and no textual illustrations except for the dedication leaf and first page of the Table of Contents. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BAUM on the front flyleaf, "For Elizabeth Brewster Hubbard with the author's love. L. Frank Baum. Syracuse, November 1902." Swann/Schiller, 80.