The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger by Langley, Noel - 1938

New York:: William Morrow & Co.,, 1938.. First edition.. publisher's cloth.. Ink gift inscription on half title (which has a 1-1/2" tear at the bottom edge); foxing to the endsheets and about the second half of the text. Light use to cloth; tight and sound. . Folio,. Written and Illustrated by Noel Langley..

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,… Read More

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1937. Beautifully illustrated book, 20 full colour illustrions by the author, 143 pages in very bright clean condition just neat former owners details on front endpaper. Illustrations, all present as published plus. Scarce dustwrapper is is a little browned to spine and light foxing spots to inside of wrapper, some marks to rear, small losses to eddges, tear to top front left which has been repaired on the inside with clear inert tape some time ago,not price clipped.Outer boards are bright and clean. A pleasing example of this book especially with dustwrapper SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Noel Langley . 11 ¼ x 8 ¼ Inches. Hardcover.

London: Arthur Barker, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition.. 123pp. HARDCOVER. Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. No signs of use internally. D/w is present, but with edgewear top & bottom. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. (Boards slightly bowed.) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1937. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Large paper issue. Publisher's original green cloth with with gilt titles to the spine, in the pictorial dustwrapper. With 20 illustrations in colour by the author throughout. An attractive very good copy, the binding clean and square, the cloth with a few tiny fading spots at the spine corners. The contents, with a gift inscription and ownership name to the front endpaper and light spotting to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that has several tiny chips and short closed tears with little in the way of the loss and some spotting to the flaps. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: William Morrow & Co.,, 1938. First US edition, first printing. A scarce title, especially so in the dust jacket. It was largely on the basis of this work that Langley was selected as a screenwriter for The Wizard of Oz (1939). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black, genie motif to front cover in black. With dust jacket. Colour illustrations by the author throughout. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Rubbing to spine ends and tips, dampstains to book block edges, light offsetting to endpapers, a very good copy in the jacket with swastika motif blocked out, as often, spine faded, loss to spine ends and foot of front panel, chips and short closed tears to extremities, dampstains to rear panel and flap.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1937. First edition. First edition. Publisher's original green cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 20 illustrations in colour by the author throughout. An attractive very good copy, the binding clean and square, the cloth with light fading at the tips of the spine. The contents are entirely complete. There is a small ink name and date in red pen to the front free endpaper and light spotting to the prelims. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper which is worn and darkened to the extremities, with several closed tears, marks and nicks but little in the way of loss. Not price-clipped. A decent example, in entirely original condition. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.