Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Author: Baum, L. Frank Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Britton Date: [1911] Description: 256 pp. Illus. with 16 color plates & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 23.5x17.5 cm (9x6½ in), light blue cloth, pictorial cover label with metallic gold background; inserted pictorial endpapers in black & yellow. First Edition, Third State. An exceptionally bright, clean copy of the fourth Oz book. Third state with advertisement on verso of half-title listing six titles beginning with The Emerald City of Oz; colour plates are uncaptioned. In secondary binding with "Reilly & Britton" in upper & lower case at foot of spine and no silver embellishment to the vignette of the Tin Woodman. This book and the Emerald City of Oz are the only Oz books for which John R. Neill created finished watercolor paintings for the color plates, having done line drawings for all the other titles, which were then colored by the printer. Hanff & Greene IV, plate 32. Lot Amendments Condition: Head and tail of spine bumped, some minor scuffs to cover, plate facing page 16 detaching small tears to lower back gutter, overall very good. Item number: 307501
Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Author: Baum, L. Frank Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Britton Date: [1911] Description: 256 pp. Illus. with 16 color plates & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 23.5x17.5 cm (9x6½ in), light blue cloth, pictorial cover label with metallic gold background; inserted pictorial endpapers in black & yellow. First Edition, Third State. An exceptionally bright, clean copy of the fourth Oz book. Third state with advertisement on verso of half-title listing six titles beginning with The Emerald City of Oz; colour plates are uncaptioned. In secondary binding with "Reilly & Britton" in upper & lower case at foot of spine and no silver embellishment to the vignette of the Tin Woodman. This book and the Emerald City of Oz are the only Oz books for which John R. Neill created finished watercolor paintings for the color plates, having done line drawings for all the other titles, which were then colored by the printer. Hanff & Greene IV, plate 32. Lot Amendments Condition: Head and tail of spine bumped, some minor scuffs to cover, plate facing page 16 detaching small tears to lower back gutter, overall very good. Item number: 307501
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