May 16, 2002 - Sale 1936

Sale 1936 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 518
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
WITH THE CONTEST BLANKBAUM, L. FRANK. John Dough and the Cherub. Illustrated by John R. Neill. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; upper joint and ends rubbed; decorated endpapers over hinges cracked through, hinges tender. first edition, first printing,<> misprint "cage" for "cave" present on page 275 and with rare contest blank present<>. Schiller 150. Chicago, 1906
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Based on a character from an unproduced play by Baum, the story was serialized in newspapers in the year of publication and a contest sponsored to determine the sex of his genderless companion "Chick the Cherub".<