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Dorothy & Wizard of Oz 1st printing
Dorothy & Wizard of Oz 1st printing
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Description
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Author: Baum, L. Frank
Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:The Reilly & Britton Co.
Date Published: [1908]
Description:


256, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates & numerous black and white drawings by John R. Neill. (4to) 23x16.5 cm (9x6½"), original light blue cloth, pictorial cover label with metallic gold background; inserted pictorial endpapers in black, yellow, and olive green. First Edition, First Printing, Second Binding.



First printing, with advertisement on verso of half-title listing three titles, The Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and John Dough and the Cherub; the color plates are captioned. In the second state binding, with "The Reilly & Britton Co." in upper and lowercase letters at foot of spine. The front endpapers are printed in black and olive green, while the rear are the more commonplace black and yellow. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.34.

Condition
Light wear and soiling to cloth with light rubbing to extremities; light soiling to endpapers, Christmas 1910 gift inscription on blank page at front, small closed tear to edge of plate facing p. 16, not affecting illustration, faint areas of foxing to some plates; very good.
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Dorothy & Wizard of Oz 1st printing

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