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THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ
by Snow, Jack; [Baum, L. Frank]; Kramer, Frank
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1949. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Very scarce first edition of this later Oz novel, one of just two published by Snow following Ruth Plumly Thompson, L. Frank Baum's first authorized successor. Quarto. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. In original first state dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Black and white illustrations. 32-page gatherings. 255 pages. HG xxxviii. Slight chipping to upper edges of dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13419
- Title
- THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ
- Author
- Snow, Jack; [Baum, L. Frank]; Kramer, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Fantasy,Chapter Book,Oz Books
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
Type Punch Matrix is a rare book firm founded by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. TPM is a member firm of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and upholds their Code of Ethics.
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- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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