Tik-Tok of Oz.

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.