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    American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. Frank Baum’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Baum includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
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    American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    L. Frank Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.

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      American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - L. Frank Baum

      The Complete Works of

      L. FRANK BAUM

      VOLUME 20 OF 76

      American Fairy Tales

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 2

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘American Fairy Tales’

      L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition (in 76 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 124 5

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      L. Frank Baum: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 20 of the Delphi Classics edition of L. Frank Baum in 76 Parts. It features the unabridged text of American Fairy Tales from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of L. Frank Baum, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of L. Frank Baum or the Complete Works of L. Frank Baum in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      L. FRANK BAUM

      IN 76 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Oz Works

      1, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

      2, The Marvelous Land of Oz

      3, The Woggle-Bug Book

      4, Ozma of Oz

      5, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

      6, The Road to Oz

      7, The Emerald City of Oz

      8, The Patchwork Girl of Oz

      9, Little Wizard Stories of Oz

      10, Tik-Tok of Oz

      11, The Scarecrow of Oz

      12, Rinkitink in Oz

      13, The Lost Princess of Oz

      14, The Tin Woodman of Oz

      15, The Magic of Oz

      16, Glinda of Oz

      17, The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

      Other Fantasy Works

      18, The Magical Monarch of Mo

      19, Dot and Tot of Merryland

      20, American Fairy Tales

      21, The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale

      22, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

      23, The Enchanted Island of Yew

      24, Queen Zixi of Ix

      25, John Dough and the Cherub

      26, The Sea Fairies

      27, Sky Island

      Non-Fantasy Works Under Baum’s Name

      28, The Daring Twins

      29, Phoebe Daring

      The Pseudonym Works – Fantasy

      30, Twinkle and Chubbins

      31, Policeman Bluejay

      The Pseudonym Works – Non-Fantasy

      32, Aunt Jane’s Nieces

      33, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Abroad

      34, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville

      35, Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Work

      36, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in Society

      37, Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John

      38, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on Vacation

      39, Aunt Jane’s Nieces on the Ranch

      40, Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West

      41, Aunt Jane’s Nieces in the Red Cross

      42, The Flying Girl

      43, The Flying Girl and Her Chum

      44, Mary Louise

      45, Mary Louise in the Country

      46, Mary Louise Solves a Mystery

      47, Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

      48, Mary Louise Adopts a Soldier

      49, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska

      50, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Panama

      51, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt

      52, The Boy Fortune Hunters in China

      53, The Boy Fortune Hunters in Yucatan

      54, The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas

      55, The Fate of a Crown

      56, Daughters of Destiny

      57, Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy

      58, Annabel, a Novel for Young Folk

      59, The Last Egyptian

      Shorter Fiction

      60, Our Landlady

      61, Mother Goose in Prose

      62, Animal Fairy Tales

      63, Uncollected Short Stories

      The Poetry Collections

      64, By the Candelabra’s Glare

      65, Father Goose: His Book

      66, The Army Alphabet

      67, The Navy Alphabet

      68, Father Goose’s Year Book

      The Poems

      69, List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

      The Plays

      70, The Maid of Arran

      71, The Wizard of Oz

      72, The Maid of Athens

      73, The King of Gee-Whiz

      74, The Pipes O’ Pan

      Baumiana

      75, Baum Related Articles and Pieces

      The Biography

      76, In Other Lands Than Ours by Maud Gage-Baum

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      American Fairy Tales

      George M. Hill Company published Baum’s American Fairy Tales in 1901, a year after they issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.  Ralph Fletcher Seymour designed the cover, title page and page borders, while Harry Kennedy, Ike Morgan, and Norman P. Hall provided illustrations for the twelve fantasy stories.  Unusual in Baum’s canon, the stories tend to have an ironic or satirical tone, perhaps appropriate for adult readers of the newspapers they first appeared in.  The Enchanted Types and The Dummy that Lived include knooks and ryls, fairies which feature in Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, published in 1902.  The 1908 edition by Bobbs-Merrill of American Fairy Tales includes three further stories and appeared under the title, Baum’s American Fairy Tales: Stories of Astonishing Adventures of American Boys and Girls with the Fairies of Their Native Land.

      The rare first edition of ‘American Fairy Tales’

      CONTENTS

      THE BOX OF ROBBERS

      THE GLASS DOG

      THE QUEEN OF QUOK

      THE GIRL WHO OWNED A BEAR

      THE ENCHANTED TYPES

      THE LAUGHING HIPPOPOTAMUS

      THE MAGIC BON BONS

      THE CAPTURE OF FATHER TIME

      THE WONDERFUL PUMP

      THE DUMMY THAT LIVED

      THE KING OF THE POLAR BEARS

      THE MANDARIN AND THE BUTTERFLY

      A copy of the 1908 edition

      THE BOX OF ROBBERS

      No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another. Mrs. McFarland was attending the weekly card party held by the Women’s Anti-Gambling League. Sister Nell’s young man had called quite unexpectedly to take her for a long drive. Papa was at the office, as usual. It was Mary Ann’s day out. As for Emeline, she certainly should have stayed in the house and looked after the little girl; but Emeline had a restless nature.

      Would you mind, miss, if I just crossed the alley to speak a word to Mrs. Carleton’s girl? she asked Martha.

      ‘Course not, replied the child. You’d better lock the back door, though, and take the key, for I shall be upstairs.

      Oh, I’ll do that, of course, miss, said the delighted maid, and ran away to spend the afternoon with her friend, leaving Martha quite alone in the big house, and locked in, into the bargain.

      The little girl read a few pages in her new book, sewed a few stitches in her embroidery and started to play visiting with her four favorite dolls. Then she remembered that in the attic was a doll’s playhouse that hadn’t been used for months, so she decided she would dust it and put it in order.

      Filled with this idea, the girl climbed the winding stairs to the big room under the roof. It was well lighted by three dormer windows and was warm and pleasant. Around the walls were rows of boxes and trunks, piles of old carpeting, pieces of damaged furniture, bundles of discarded clothing and other odds and ends of more or less value. Every well-regulated house has an attic of this sort, so I need not describe it.

      The doll’s house had been moved, but after a search Martha found it away over in a corner near the big chimney.

      She drew it out and noticed that behind it was a black wooden chest which Uncle Walter had sent over from Italy years and years ago — before Martha was born, in fact. Mamma had told her about it one day; how there was no key to it, because Uncle Walter wished it to remain unopened until he returned home; and how this wandering uncle, who was a mighty hunter, had gone into Africa to hunt elephants and had never been heard from afterwards.

      The little girl looked at the chest curiously, now that it had by accident attracted her attention.

      It was quite big — bigger even than mamma’s traveling trunk — and was studded all over with tarnished brassheaded nails. It was heavy, too, for when Martha tried to lift one end of it she found she could not stir it a bit. But there was a place in the side of the cover for a key. She stooped to examine the lock, and saw that it would take a rather big key to open it.

      Then, as you may suspect, the little girl longed to open Uncle Walter’s big box and see what was in it. For we are all curious, and little girls are just as curious as the rest of us.

      I don’t b’lieve Uncle Walter’ll ever come back, she thought. Papa said once that some elephant must have killed him. If I only had a key— She stopped and clapped her little hands together gayly as she remembered a big basket of keys on the shelf in the linen closet. They were of all sorts and sizes; perhaps one of them would unlock the mysterious chest!

      She flew down the stairs, found the basket and returned with it to the attic. Then she sat down before the brass-studded box and began trying one key after another in the curious old lock. Some were too large, but most were too

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