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THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
by Baum, L. Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1910. FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. FIRST PRINTING. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 296. Illustrated with sixteen full-color plates and black and white ink drawings. Front cover paper label illustrated in full color on metallic-silver background with metallic-green embellishments. Illustrated endpapers, printed in black and orange. Color plates embellished with bright metallic-green ink. Publisher's advertisement on verso of title page lists five titles, the fifth being John Dough and the Cherub. (Bienvenue 47; Hanff 61-62)
Light blue cloth boards with full-color pastedown illustration of a carriage full of Oz characters in the Emerald City to front board. Black title and a silver-embellished rabbit holding a musket to spine. Rubbing to extremities; a few light scratches to front pictorial. Soiling to boards with white stains on rear board; light sunning to spine. Shelf-fraying to top/bottom of well-rubbed spine. Bottom corners nudged. Previous owners' names to ownership page. Front hinge just a bit tender. Black and white drawings on half-title, verso of title page, and p. 191, and on portions of the drawings on p. 155 and 235, have been embellished in color by previous owner.
Light blue cloth boards with full-color pastedown illustration of a carriage full of Oz characters in the Emerald City to front board. Black title and a silver-embellished rabbit holding a musket to spine. Rubbing to extremities; a few light scratches to front pictorial. Soiling to boards with white stains on rear board; light sunning to spine. Shelf-fraying to top/bottom of well-rubbed spine. Bottom corners nudged. Previous owners' names to ownership page. Front hinge just a bit tender. Black and white drawings on half-title, verso of title page, and p. 191, and on portions of the drawings on p. 155 and 235, have been embellished in color by previous owner.
Synopsis
From the book:Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host of youngsters whose ideas I am requestsed to weave into the thread of my stories. These ideas are often clever. They are also logical and interesting. So I have used them whenever I could find an opportunity, and it is but just that I acknowledge my indebtedness to my little friends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86680
- Title
- THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
- Author
- Baum, L. Frank
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST PRINTING
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Britton Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- The Wizard of Oz, Oz Books
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