The Giant Horse Of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson - 1928

The Reilly & Lee, 1928. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Cover is worn and rubbed with some of the front cover art being chipped from the bottom edge. The corner edges of the cover are bumped. The top and bottom edges of the spine are creased and worn. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. A few pages in chapter 1 are foxed and slightly smudged, not affecting legibility. Otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked.

Reilly & Lee Co, 1928. post 1935 reprint. Good++/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover Hardcover:Maroon cloth boards with beautiful full color illustrated plate on front board. Rubbed corners and spine ends. Shelfwear. 'Clear' drip- mark on spine. Rubbed on all edges. Bumped corners. Color illustrated hand-tipped title on front board. Page edges are lightly foxed and soiled. Illustrated endpapers. Latest happenings in Oz !. Nice tight binding. Illustrated by John R. Neill. All illustrations are black and white which leads us to believe that this edition was published after 1935 when the publisher started printing OZ books without color illustrations. .

[L. FRANK BAUM, RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON]. THE GIANT HORSE OF OZ. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1928. First Edition, First printing. First State. Condition: G+. Appears lightly read, publisher's original dark brick-red cloth, illustrated endpapers, colors on plates are still vibrant, front/back hinges cracked though webbing is still attached to boards/text block, binding shaken, some offsetting opposite color plates due to age, some dampstains / soiling to extremities of pages / outer text block, rubbing to cloth board extremities typical of books of this age, else pages are generally very clean, unmarked and bright. Hinges can easily be repaired at a professional bookbinder. Near invisible previous owner's indent of pencil inscription completely erased on ownership page. All 12 color plates present. This is the very first printing of the first edition with all first edition points met; the letter "r" in morning on page 116 line 1 is not damaged, "Quiberon" is misspelled "Oniberon" on the frontispiece caption… Read More

Chicago, IL: Reilly & Lee, 1928. early, not 1st printing; dj w/slight wear, in mylar; brilliant tan c w/colored pictorial boards ; b&w illus; owner's name; 283 clean, unmarked pages (Lists to Silver Princess on dj flap). Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by John R.Neill. 4 vo.