6. BAUM, L[yman] Frank (1856-1919) [Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald (pseud.)]. Sam Steele’s Adventures On Land and Sea. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., [1906]. 271 pp. 8vo (185 x 125 mm). Illustrated by Henry Heath. Publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial red cloth. Condition: some rubbing of paper label on front cover.
first edition, first issue. Baum’s first attempt to write a series of teenaged boys’ adventure books. The first two titles were not successful so Baum revamped them in 1908 as The Boy Fortune Hunters Series under the pseudonym “Floyd Akers” that eventually ran to six volumes.
est. $500 – $800