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Ozma of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1907. First edition, state A binding, 1st state text. Hardcover. Good +. 270pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards with lettering and pictorial stamping in black, red, yellow, and blue. Rebacked, with the original spine laid over. New endbands. Endpapers printed in full color. There are numerous small areas of abrasion to the cloth covers, and there are two subtle tissue repairs to closed tears in the fore-edge margins of the preliminary leaves. Bienvenue, p. 29. Hanff / Greene, p. 50. Spine imprint includes "Co." Only two titles are listed on the last page. "O" is in "Ozma" on p. [11], line 5. Illustration on p. 221 in color. An early book in the Oz series. Contains numerous illustrations by John R. Neill. This is the third book in the Oz series.
Synopsis
Ozma of Oz, published on July 29, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64138
- Title
- Ozma of Oz
- Author
- Baum, L. Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, state A binding, 1st state text
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Britton Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Oz; L. Frank Baum; Ozma; xmas23; 36xm!; californiafairs2024
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Rebacked
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- Leaves
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- Cloth
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- New
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