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Grampa in Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
£298.65£268.78
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About This Item
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1924. First Edition, First State . Cloth w Paper Cover Illust.. About Very Good. Octavo. John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilley & Lee, 1924. First Edition, earliest state, all points (see below). Illustrated by John R. Neill. 271 pp. About Very Good; fading to spine, front pictorial endpapers colored in by a presumably youthful hand, wear and some soiling on covers, ownership label filled out. See scan. All twelve color prints and the textblock are in exceptionally nice condition, having the appearance of not having been read. About Very Good binding. First edition, first state of Ruth Plumly Thompson's 1924 offering in the Oz series. Complete type (not broken) at page 171 (numeral) and page 189 (last word, next to last line), indicating first printing (Hanff & Greene), and color plates are coated on printed side only. These twelve plates, virtually pristine here, make one want to excise and frame them, ubut you can't do that. They are the work of the beloved illustrator John R. Neill, as are the dozens of smaller black and white illustrations. Thompson's tale carries on the tradition: A princess. A prince. An old soldier, a wise man, and a prophet. A chicken and a pirate. Please see scan. L-42n
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000558
- Title
- Grampa in Oz
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Cloth w Paper Cover Illust.
- Book Condition
- Used - About Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Lee Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- 271
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Children's Fiction, Juvenile, Fantasy, Oz, first Edition Classics, Classics, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
Terms of Sale
Singularity Rare & Fine
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwinsville, New York
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Glossary
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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