![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A very good copy of one of Baum’s most fantastic and popular Oz adventures. Cloth with light soiling and expert restoration to original cloth. Interior with scattered light foxing and soiling. Pencil ownership signature to ownership page. Without extremely scarce original dust jacket. First issue, in primary binding with “The Reilly & Britton Co.” at spine foot. “Baum responded to his young readers’ pleas for ‘more about Dorothy… The Cowardly Lion also reappeared… the clockwork man, Tik-Tok, the first manmade mechanical figure in literature (years before the word ‘robot’ was invented)” (Eyles, 46). “Despite the popularity there was a hue and cry over Baum’s character omissions, which he made sure to rectify in the third of the series” (Franklin, 32). Octavo, original light tan cloth, cover color illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition, first issue of the third Oz book, with many color headpieces and 40 full-page color illustrations by John R. “MORE ABOUT DOROTHY”: OZMA OF OZ, FIRST EDITION IN PRIMARY BINDINGīAUM, L. ![]()
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