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THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
by Baum, L. Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good Dustjacket
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: Reilly & Britton, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in Good Dustjacket. John R. Neill. Light blue cloth. Full color paste-on to front of a frog prince with tall staff, and the blonde be-crowned Princess Ozma. First edition with all requisite points of issue (light-blue cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, double horizontal lines at top and bottom of spine, verso of ownership page lists titles through The Lost Princess of Oz. 12 full-color plates. Rubbing to extremities. scuffing and spotting to rear board. Slight spine lean. Corners nudged. Tape repair to pp. 31/32 with a pen-scratch injury pressing through, successively fainter, to pp. 40. Spotting to illustrations opposite 128; 168-9; illustration opposite pp. 224 & 256.
Housed in SUPPLIED dustjacket from a LATER edition (most likely 1939 or 1940), with $1.50 price intact, and the list of Oz books on rear dustjacket flap to #32 "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz". A bit of edgewear and faint staining to dustjacket. "There could be no doubt of the fact. Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost..."
Housed in SUPPLIED dustjacket from a LATER edition (most likely 1939 or 1940), with $1.50 price intact, and the list of Oz books on rear dustjacket flap to #32 "Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz". A bit of edgewear and faint staining to dustjacket. "There could be no doubt of the fact. Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost..."
Synopsis
From the book:There could be no doubt of the fact: Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost. She had completely disappeared.Not one of her subjects - not even her closest friends - knew what had become of her. It was Dorothy who first discovered it. Dorothy was a little Kansas girl who had come to the Land of Oz to live and had been given a delightful suite of rooms in Ozma's royal palace just because Ozma loved Dorothy and wanted her to live as near her as possible so the two girls might be much together. Dorothy was not the only girl from the outside world who had been welcomed to Oz and lived in the royal palace. There was another named Betsy Bobbin, whose adventures had led her to seek refuge with Ozma, and still another named Trot, who had been invited, together with her faithful companion Cap'n Bill, to make her home in this wonderful fairyland. The three girls all had rooms in the palace and were great chums; but Dorothy was the dearest friend of their gracious Ruler and only she at any hour dared to seek Ozma in her royal apartments. For Dorothy had lived in Oz much longer than the other girls and had been made a Princess of the realm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86469
- Title
- THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
- Author
- Baum, L. Frank
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reilly & Britton
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1917
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- Rubbing
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