Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1993. As new in jacket. First edition thus, but is a SECOND PRINTING with numbering starting with "2". Facsimile edition of the rare 1910 edition with the metallic plates by John R. Neill. Dust jacket is not price-clipped and DOES NOT HAVE the metallic embellishments on the jacket, like in the first facsimie edition of this book done by HarperCollins. WONDERFULLY realized and this book also has NO bunny on the spine, but rather a black triangular device on the bottom half of the book with a gnome on it. Jacket is covered in Mylar. Great copy with the colored plates and text, just like in the original book. The interior plates DO HAVE the metallic ink on them as issued in the rare first printing and in the first facsimile edition. Pictorial boards.. Illus. by John R. Neill. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Facsimile. 2nd Edition Thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

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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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Bookseller: Phantom Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 010988
Title: The Emerald City of Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank
Illustrator: John R. Neill
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: 2nd Edition Thus
ISBN 10: 0688115586
ISBN 13: 9780688115586
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Place of Publication: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
Keywords: THE WIZARD OF OZ, MARVELOUS LAND L. FRANK BAUM
Size: 8vo

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Phantom Bookshop was established in 1993 by bookman and artist John Anthony Miller and located there for eight years in Downtown Ventura at 451 E. Main St in Ventura, California. Many famous authors and celebrities signed there and was a top favorite bookshop of Ray Bradbury's. We specialize used and rare books, unusual material and signed books with an emphasis on the unique, sci fi and fantasy, first editions, scientific and medical. We also have a nice selection of high quality facsimile dust jackets done etching and engraving artist John Anthony Miller (all jackets are marked tastefully that they are facsimile jackets, printed on high quality non acidic paper using the finest inks that will last a lifetime with care). Phantom Bookshop relocated in 2000 as an internet business.

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