The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger

New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Dustjacket has chips and edgewear - see image. Swastika on front panel has been blocked out (but not on page 125) . Price clipped. Foxing to rear endpapers and a couple of preceding pages - does not affect the text nor the illustration. ; Book is in Very Good condition. First Edition. Scarce copy, particularly with dustjacket. "In part due to the success of his own children's book The Land of Green Ginger, Langley was one of the screenwriters chosen for the job of adapting L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for film. In 11 days, he provided a 43-page adaptation. Changes he introduced to the story are the inclusion of the actors playing the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Lion characters as farmworkers in the sepia tone Kansas sequences as well as changing the color of Dorothy's shoes from silver to ruby. [5] Langley also introduced Miss Almira Gulch, the Wicked Witch's Kansas counterpart. He then wrote a final draft. However, unbeknownst to him, MGM hired Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf to do rewrites. But, producer Arthur Freed was displeased with their work and turned the script back over to Langley. Langley disliked their changes and removed many of them." [wikipedia] Bonus: New York Times clipping of ad for Radio City Music Hall showing of Hitchcock's film, Rebecca, dated 1940. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 143 pages .