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THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
by Baum, L. Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1910. FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 296. Illustrated with sixteen full-color plates and black and white ink drawings. Front cover paper label illustrated in full color on metallic-silver background with metallic-green embellishments. Illustrated endpapers, printed in black and orange. Color plates embellished with bright shiny, metallic-green ink. Publisher's advertisement on verso of title page lists five titles, the fifth being John Dough and the Cherub. (Bienvenue 47; Hanff 61-62)
Light blue cloth boards with full-color pastedown illustration of a carriage full of Oz characters in the Emerald City to front board. Black title and a silver-embellished rabbit holding a musket to spine. Rubbing to extremities; light soiling to boards and sunning to spine. Minor shelf-fraying to top/bottom of spine. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owners' inscription, dated Dec 25 1910, to front free endpaper. Front hinge a touch tender. Scratches to metallic paint on plate opposite p. 166.
Light blue cloth boards with full-color pastedown illustration of a carriage full of Oz characters in the Emerald City to front board. Black title and a silver-embellished rabbit holding a musket to spine. Rubbing to extremities; light soiling to boards and sunning to spine. Minor shelf-fraying to top/bottom of spine. Corners nudged and showing. Previous owners' inscription, dated Dec 25 1910, to front free endpaper. Front hinge a touch tender. Scratches to metallic paint on plate opposite p. 166.
Synopsis
From the book:Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host of youngsters whose ideas I am requestsed to weave into the thread of my stories. These ideas are often clever. They are also logical and interesting. So I have used them whenever I could find an opportunity, and it is but just that I acknowledge my indebtedness to my little friends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86681
- Title
- THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
- Author
- Baum, L. Frank
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST PRINTING
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Britton Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- The Wizard of Oz, Oz Books
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- Plate
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- Spine
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