Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Alphabet—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Alphabet—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Alphabet books—Specimens [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

• Denslow's picture books for children [More in this series]
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood. [More in this series]

Notes

• Wrapper title.
• "Published August 1903"--Copyright page.
• "To Mira Bowles"--Copyright page.
• "For these books, W.W. Denslow has revised and adapted several of the best classical fairy tales. He has improved these stories by elimination of all coarseness, cruelty, and everything that might frighten children. They are new; more beautiful and striking in both text and picture than any children's books heretofore published. Each book is filled with pictures of action and fun in brilliant colors. The twelve books are uniform in size"--Rear wrapper.
• In verse.
• Relief illustrations, color printed; figures depicted include the Scarecrow and Tin Man characters from L. Frank Baum's Oz books; first printing as described in Greene & Hearn below.
• Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Other title(s)

• ABC book
• A B C book

OCLC

905333796

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