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NEILL, John R[ea]. Lucky Bucky in Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Lee [1942]. 8vo, 290pp. Red cloth with color pictorial cover label, spine pictorially stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers; numerous b&w illustrations. Spine ends lightly rubbed with small nick at bottom, corners and edge of label a tad rubbed, else a clean, bright copy.First edition with 16 page gatherings and spine vignette of a boy's face. John R. Neill's third and final canonical Oz book and the 36th book in the series. Bucky Jones is aboard a tugboat in New York Harbor when the boiler blows up. He is soon blown into the Nonestic Ocean where he meets Davy Jones, a wooden whale. The pair take an undersea route to the Emerald City, and have many adventures along the way. Bienvenue p128.