Title: The Road to Oz Author: Baum, L. Frank Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Brittion Date: [1909] Description: 261, [2] ad pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light green cloth stamped in dark green, red & black; inserted pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State, First Binding. First state with two ad pages at end; p.[263] listing Baum books published under pseudonym "Laura Bancroft;" p.[264] listing the four Baum titles, The Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, and John Dough and the Cherub; gatherings printed on tinted stocks arranged in the order called for by Hanff & Greene. The rear cover has silhouette portraits of Dorothy and Ozma, and the spine imprint is printed in upper and lower case letters. This is not one of the "earliest copies," as it has damaged type on p.34, line 4 ("Toto on"); the page number 121 is broken; and with the numeral and caption absent beneath the illustration on p.129. Colored sheets are collated in the order of the first printing, binding with publisher's imprint in first printing style; thickness of volume 1 1/16". Hanff & Greene (III) p. 58. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate wear to covers; front hinge cracked; binding shaken, good. Item number: 174824
Title: The Road to Oz Author: Baum, L. Frank Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Brittion Date: [1909] Description: 261, [2] ad pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light green cloth stamped in dark green, red & black; inserted pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State, First Binding. First state with two ad pages at end; p.[263] listing Baum books published under pseudonym "Laura Bancroft;" p.[264] listing the four Baum titles, The Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, and John Dough and the Cherub; gatherings printed on tinted stocks arranged in the order called for by Hanff & Greene. The rear cover has silhouette portraits of Dorothy and Ozma, and the spine imprint is printed in upper and lower case letters. This is not one of the "earliest copies," as it has damaged type on p.34, line 4 ("Toto on"); the page number 121 is broken; and with the numeral and caption absent beneath the illustration on p.129. Colored sheets are collated in the order of the first printing, binding with publisher's imprint in first printing style; thickness of volume 1 1/16". Hanff & Greene (III) p. 58. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate wear to covers; front hinge cracked; binding shaken, good. Item number: 174824
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