{"product_id":"to-2026-138","title":"The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBAUM, L. Frank.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, BINDING A.\u003c\/strong\u003e Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1901. Illustrations by F. Y. Cory (Fanny Young Cory).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. 245 pp. Olive-green cloth with mounted color illustration label to the front board, gilt-ruled and decorated; \"BOWEN MERRILL\" imprint on the lower spine and the comma in the last line of the copyright page to the right of the \"n\" in \"Brooklyn\"; title blind-stamped on the rear board. Twelve full-color plates by Cory, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, plus numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations. Bienvenue \u0026amp; Schmidt p. 196; Schiller 77. Near fine: light wear to extremities, corners just starting to show through, front hinge cracked; color label intact with mild surface wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eL. Frank Baum's children's novel of 1901, published the year after \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/em\u003e and widely classified as one of the earliest American science-fiction novels for children. Its protagonist, Rob Joslyn — generally thought to be modeled on Baum's second son, Robert Stanton Baum (born 1886, about fifteen at publication), to whom the book is dedicated — is a boy electrical experimenter whose tinkering accidentally summons the Daemon of Electricity, who grants him a succession of marvelous \"gifts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-138\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baum, L. Frank","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955675297,"sku":"TO-2026-138","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-138_01_e8ac0f7c-81db-4868-a1e3-ddf8b15f3000.jpg?v=1783389996","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-138","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}