NMLP P-044023 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Father Goose: His Book

L. Frank Baum · George M. Hill (Chicago) · 1899

Physically, the book is a quarto in original pictorial gray paper-covered boards, unpaginated (54 leaves including the front blank), with colour illustrations throughout by W. W. Denslow and the verso of the final leaf crediting Ralph Fletcher Seymour for the hand-lettered text (an economy measure — the verse was hand-lettered rather than typeset)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044023 for "Father Goose: His Book" by L. Frank Baum (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044023, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).