first edition
1910 · Chicago
by Baum, L. Frank. [Illus. by John R. Neill].
Large 4to. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1910. Large 4to, 296 pp. Original light blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Front pastedown inscribed “Carolyn Beadel: from the Bush Girls, Aug 12 - 1911”. Complete with 16 full-colour plates as inserts and many black and white illustrations throughout. Some wear to boards, slightly toned pages, very minor soiling throughout. § First edition, first state with light blue cloth, five titles on verso of ownership page, 16 full-colour plates embellished with green metallic ink, and two-colour endpapers (Hanff, 47). The sixth in the Oz series.
(Inventory #: 106283)