BAUM, L. Frank.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. Publishers , 1908.
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Item Number: RRB-151926
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L. Frank Baum's Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz; in the Scarce Original Dust Jacket
Rare first edition, second printing of the fourth book in Baum's Oz series, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Quarto, original publisher's light blue cloth (Bienvenue and Schmidt's binding C), pictorial label with metallic gold background to front board, illustrated endpapers printed in yellow and black, publisher's advertisement on half-title verso lists six titles, beginning with The Emerald City of Oz; 16 full-color plates without captions and numerous illustrations throughout by John R. Neill, the spine imprint reading "Reilly & Britton" and without silver embellishments to the Tin Woodman vignette. Bienvenue and Schmidt pp. 33-35; Hanff & Greene IV. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket is mixed state with the gold metallic background, rear panel advertising six titles, but both flaps blank. Very rare in the original dust jacket.
Published in 1908, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth volume of L. Frank Baum's Oz series and reunites its two title characters several years after their original encounter in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The narrative opens with a California earthquake that plunges Dorothy, her cousin Zeb, the cab horse Jim, and the kitten Eureka into a subterranean world, where they cross paths with the Wizard and traverse a sequence of strange realms—the Land of the Mangaboos with its glass-skinned vegetable inhabitants, the sunless Valley of Voe, and the territory of the wooden Gargoyles—before being delivered to the Emerald City through Ozma's intervention. John R. Neill's illustrations, having succeeded W. W. Denslow's after the inaugural volume, give the work its distinctive visual register and extend the increasingly elaborate iconography of the cycle. Baum had intended the book as a conclusion to the series, a position he reiterated in its closing pages, though commercial demand ultimately compelled him to resume the saga with The Emerald City of Oz in 1910.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
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