Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, circa 1941. Later reprint. Near fine in its original decorated gray cloth covered boards with black text and decorations on the spine and with a printed paper label on the front board which no wear or damage. An octavo of 9 by 6 5/8 with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine slightly crimped inward. In a very good+, unclipped ($1.75 price is lined out) dust jacket with a 1/3 inch chip from the upper rear edge of the spine area, rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area, and rubbing with minor losses to the upper and lower fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. 281 pages of text and illustrated with black and white, line art full pages and numerous black and white vignettes by John R. Neill. With 34 Oz Books listed on the front and rear flaps of the dust jacket, ending with Scalawagons of Oz,which was first printed in 1941. A very bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Bienvenue, p.114)

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB32490
Title: The Purple Prince of Oz
Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Later reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: circa 1941

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Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Heel: The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...