Beschreibung:

BAUM, L. FRANK. The Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. 24 tipped-in color plates (including title) and other illustrations by W.W. Denslow. Square 8vo, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly age-darkened with a little fraying at ends, some minor soiling; shaken. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE TEXT AND PLATES. With the following points as follows: front lining paper is pale gray; advertisements on p. [2] enclosed in a square box; no printed or stamped copyright notice on the title verso; first line on p. 14 reads "low wail on the wind"; the plate opposite p. 34 in earliest state with two blue spots on the moon; fourth line from the bottom on p. 81 reads "peices" (later "pieces"); the "stork plate" opposite p. 92 in the earliest state with red shadowing on the horizon; perfect type on the last line of pp. 100 and 186; first line of p. [227] reads "While Tin Woodman" (later "While The Woodman"); 11-line colophon within a box on the terminal lining paper. Binding variant B (publisher's name on spine foot stamped in red in plain, unserified type.) Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod 111; Morgan/ Early Children's Books 214; Hanff & Greene I.1.B. [With:] BAUM, L. FRANK. The New Wizard of Oz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1903]. 8 color plates and other illustrations after Denslow. Square 8vo, original pale green cloth, colored pictorial front cover label, spine faded and worn at ends. Fifth edition, second state. Hanff & Greene, p. 34. (2)