THE UPLIFT OF LUCIFER
In which is included The Corrugated Giant and Some Other Baumiana Mostly Photographic By L. Frank Baum Los Angeles: Privately printed (1963). First edition: limited to 500 copies. Mild fading to the cover extremities, as usual with all copies with have handled, else nearly fine, unread in light blue string-tied textured wraps with titles and string in red. Text
of a 1915 play written by Baum to be performed at "The Uplifters" an LA
social club he was a member of; filled with his trademark puns, and
with songs composed by Louis Gottschalk! Included is a short unpublished fairy story, "The Corrugated Giant." Includes a preface by Manual Weltman on how he unearthed the previously unpublished manuscripts. Octavo (6 1/8" by 9 1/2") 47 pages. Illustrated with photos and theatre program facsimiles. |