BAUM, L. Frank.
Tik-Tok of Oz.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. , c. 1920.
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Item Number: RRB-151858
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First Edition of L. Frank Baum's Tik-Tok of Oz; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
First edition, later printing of the eighth Oz book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Later printing with the verso of the half-title page listing Baum titles through Glinda of Oz. Octavo, original publisher’s full medium blue cloth with pictorial label affixed to the front board, all edges stained yellow, spine stamped in black with the publisher’s spine imprint reading “Reilly & Britton”, illustrated with frontispiece and 12 uncaptioned colored plates by John R. Neill. Printers error with the full-page black and white illustration on page 127 printed upside down, verso illustration on page 128 printed correctly. Very good in a good dust jacket with losses to the spine and rear panel, shelf wear, and lacking one plate. Accompanied by a Map of Oz laid in (ca. 1920). From the Michael Charles collection of L. Frank Baum and Oz books.
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) is the eighth volume in L. Frank Baum's Oz series and one of the more tonally exuberant entries in the canon, distinguished by several points of bibliographic and narrative interest that set it apart from its companions. Despite its title, the book has little to do with Tik-Tok himself — the narrative is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man to rescue his brother from the underground kingdom of the Nome King, with Tik-Tok serving as a secondary figure recruited along the way. The novel grew directly from Baum's theatrical ambitions: he based it on his 1913 musical extravaganza The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, which created a sensation in California but did not do well on the road, and he dedicated the book to Louis F. Gottschalk, the composer who had written its score. The first edition holds a special place in the history of Oz collecting for a cartographic reason: the front and rear endpapers contain the first maps ever printed of Oz and its surrounding fairylands — though the initial map was drawn backwards, with the Munchkin Country and Winkie Country reversed and the compass rose inverted, an error subsequent printings corrected only partially, creating a pleasing bibliographic puzzle that has occupied Oz scholars ever since. The first edition sold just over 14,000 copies.
Tik-Tok of Oz.
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