Ozma of Oz. by BAUM, L. Frank - 1907: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co,, 1907. Octavo. Original light tan cloth cloth, titles to spine in black, decoration to spine in black, red and yellow, titles and decoration to front board in red, yellow, black and blue, decoration to rear board in red, black and yellow, colour pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece, Spine rolled, corners lightly rubbed, bumping to ends of spine, light soiling to boards, page 195 with chip to corner not effecting any text. A very attractive copy of this title with colours to front board still vivid. First edition, first printing, in the first state of both binding and text. The latter has the following points: the "O" in "Ozma" on p. [11], line five, which is lacking in later copies; the illustration p. [221] printed in colour; the advertisement p. [272] listing only two titles. Baum's third land of Oz story and the first to be consciously written as part of an ongoing series reunites Dorothy with the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Princess Ozma and introduces the characters of Tik-Tok, the Hungry Tiger, the Yellow Hen and the Nome King. Bienvenue & Schmidt pp. 29-30.