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The Magical Mimics in Oz
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1946]. 243 pp. 8vo (235 x 175 mm). Illustrated by Frank Kramer. Publisher’s light gray cloth, pictorial label in original printed dust jacket, pictorial endpapers in green on pale yellow stock. Condition : minor staining to rear cover, jacket with short tear to upper front panel, occasional chipping and tape repairs. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition, first issue in dust jacket . Jack Snow was supposedly gathering material for a never-written biography of L. Frank Baum when he penned this haunting Oz Book. Having never read Thompson’s Oz Books, he did not include any of her characters in this or his next story, The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949). [With:] The Shaggy Man of Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1949]. 255 pp. 8vo (235 x 175 mm). Illustrated by Frank Kramer. Publisher’s gray cloth, pictorial label in original printed dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. Condition : small closed to rear dust jacket panel with minimal chipping at tail of spine panel. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition, first issue in dust jacket . “Shaggy never had a book of his own and I believe he deserves one,” Snow wrote Meyer in 1947. “The Tin Woodman will figure largely in this, sharing Shaggy’s adventures, so that should please you. I am taking them (the Oz people) to some of the strange lands Baum wrote about in his fine fairy tale John Dough and the Cherub . Also there are some inventions of my own which I feel will turn out excitingly.” Although the Tin Woodman was dropped from the story, Snow did cobble together many incidents from the earlier Baum book in The Shaggy Man of Oz .