Henry Altemus Company

 

Advertising Flyer

 

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."

Magic Wand Binding

Magic Wand Frontis

Magic Wand Endpages

Magic Wand Flyer

Magic Wand Flyer

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