the life and adventures of santa claus 1902

Please check out our other Antique Christmas book and ornament listings. Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark. I don't know if any illustrations are missing other than the one between pages 10 and 11.Please feel free to email with any questions. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. I counted 4 color image pages, and 8 not full color illustrations. The main issues are with the illustrations : a few are still bound into the book, but almost all are loose, some with tears. It reappeared in The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1902), A Kidnapped Santa Claus (1904, essentially a retelling of the Awgwa crisis with slightly. There is a tear and pencil name on the inside endcover, pencil name on first two blank pages, hole and tape mark on page adjacent to title page, name on page 3, torn and missing image between page 10 and page 11. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), beautifully illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark (1871-1950).Condition: The book is in FAIR to POOR condition. Bound in the original pictorial red cloth (with Santa in a green coat sitting atop a chimney) with lettering in white and black to upper cover, and black Santa Claus outlined in white to spine.A rare First Edition of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark with a colored title page. This is the First State with section headings Book First, Book Second and Book Third. Eventually he makes presents for all the children and so the story of Santa Claus is born.Up for auction is this First Edition Hardcover 'Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1902. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts.

When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. This festive edition of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus features charming, original illustrations by Mary Cowles Clark and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley.Ī baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.

Frank Baum’s masterpiece of the imagination, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus was published in 1902, just two years after L.

The life and adventures of santa claus 1902