Baum, L. Frank. THE NAVY ALPHABET; verse by L. Frank Baum; pictures by Harry Kennedy; lettering by Charles Costello. Chicago; New York: George M. Hill Company, Publishers, 1900, (1900). FIRST EDITION. Folio - 12-5/8" x 10-7/16". Blue cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with very minor wear to the extremities for what is an exceptionally nice copy of the book. Rosy brown cloth covered collector's folding box with color pictorial decoration and lettering to front cover and lettering to spine. Plain endpapers. [29] leaves printed rectos only. A children's alphabet, told in verse, based on all things Navy, e.g., A: here is the Admiral, B: here we see the Bulwarks, C: this noble ship's a Cruiser, etc.; color title-page drawing and twenty-eight full page color drawings by Kennedy illustrate Baum's Navy-centric rhymes; internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. SCARCE; especially in such nice condition. # 000774