Owner signature in pencil.Ī near-fine copy, with only occasional faint marks of handling, minor rubbing to extremities of original cloth. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. drawing of Ozma and “The End” on page ) in secondary binding with “Reilly & Britton” at foot of spine. This volume not only “secured the Wizard his permanent space in the Emerald City” but also inaugurated “a string of 11 Oz books which Reilly & Britton would release annually in time for the Christmas buying season” (Franklin, 32). He states that he has replied to every letter he received, and that he has incorporated many of their suggestions” (Eyles, 47). “Baum’s introductory remarks refer to ‘my loving tyrants,’ the children who demanded more stories of Oz. Octavo, original blue cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition, first state of the fourth Oz book- in which two of Baum’s best-loved characters, the fearless Dorothy and the Wizard (the “great and terrible” humbug), return to the Emerald City- with numerous in-text illustrations and 16 full-page color plates by John R.
“WHY, IT’S OZ, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD, COME BACK AGAIN!”īAUM, L.
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