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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900.
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BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900.
4° (215 x 162mm). 24 colour plates including the pictorial title, and illustrations throughout, all by W.W. Denslow. (A few plates with short tears and light wear in the margins, occasional minor soiling or light spotting.) Original pictorial green cloth, blocked in dark green and vermillion, pictorial paste-downs as issued; later green leather-backed clamshell case (cloth with small expert repairs, hinges repaired, light spotting). Provenance: A.D. Stoddard.
FIRST EDITION OF BAUM'S MASTERPIECE. A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS LANDMARK OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, with first issue text and plates, and in variant B of the binding. Baum began writing 25 years earlier, when he founded a newspaper in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After leaving the paper 'he went on to manage opera houses, act in the theatre, and establish a magazine for window dressers' but the success of The Wizard of Oz 'kept him writing Oz books for the rest of his life: and even beyond his life, for after he died in 1919 others were commissioned to write more books' (Hungiville,). Baum also dabbled in related enterprises, such as a never-realized Oz amusement park off the coast of California, on an island which he had purchased for this purpose; and a film company, founded in 1914, which produced the first two Oz films. The 1939 adaptation starring Judy Garland was actually the third cinematic portrayal of Oz. With the usual first issue points for the plates (eg. p. 92 horizon is red, etc.) and text (eg. ads and colophon printed within boxes, etc.), and the binding in variant B (with the publisher's name at the foot of the spine in red in sans-serif type). Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 111-113; Hanff & Greene (1988) I.1; Hugiville, 'Introduction', in Gardner and Nye, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was; Morgan, Early Children's Books 214.
4° (215 x 162mm). 24 colour plates including the pictorial title, and illustrations throughout, all by W.W. Denslow. (A few plates with short tears and light wear in the margins, occasional minor soiling or light spotting.) Original pictorial green cloth, blocked in dark green and vermillion, pictorial paste-downs as issued; later green leather-backed clamshell case (cloth with small expert repairs, hinges repaired, light spotting). Provenance: A.D. Stoddard.
FIRST EDITION OF BAUM'S MASTERPIECE. A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS LANDMARK OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, with first issue text and plates, and in variant B of the binding. Baum began writing 25 years earlier, when he founded a newspaper in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After leaving the paper 'he went on to manage opera houses, act in the theatre, and establish a magazine for window dressers' but the success of The Wizard of Oz 'kept him writing Oz books for the rest of his life: and even beyond his life, for after he died in 1919 others were commissioned to write more books' (Hungiville,). Baum also dabbled in related enterprises, such as a never-realized Oz amusement park off the coast of California, on an island which he had purchased for this purpose; and a film company, founded in 1914, which produced the first two Oz films. The 1939 adaptation starring Judy Garland was actually the third cinematic portrayal of Oz. With the usual first issue points for the plates (eg. p. 92 horizon is red, etc.) and text (eg. ads and colophon printed within boxes, etc.), and the binding in variant B (with the publisher's name at the foot of the spine in red in sans-serif type). Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 111-113; Hanff & Greene (1988) I.1; Hugiville, 'Introduction', in Gardner and Nye, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was; Morgan, Early Children's Books 214.
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