first edition Hardcover
2024 · New York
by Baum, Frank L.
New York: Penguin Books, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 445pp Octavo [22cm]. 1/4 yellow paper over black paper boards. Endpapers illustrated with bookplate. "This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum’s fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy, who arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and a host of other characters. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) finds Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry coming to Oz just as the wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer its people. In Baum’s final novel, (truncated)