Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co,, 1929. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original grey cloth, colour pictorial image pasted down to front board, titles and decoration to spine in black, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Frank Kramer. Spine gently rolled, corners and ends of spine rubbed, "book belongs to" page with tin man and title neatly water coloured in, pages mildly toned, mild soiling to rear cover, in the dust jacket with shallow chipping to corners, wear and short closed tears to extremities, closed tear at head of spine having been repaired with glue at verso. A very attractive copy. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 111.

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Bookseller: Peter Harrington (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 99842
Title: Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz.
Author: BAUM, L. Frank - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co,
Date Published: 1929

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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rolled: rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...