THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ
by Baum, L. Frank
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Red cloth boards with black title outlined in gray and a design in black, gray and green of The Scarecrow and The Tin Woodsman shaking hands. Black title and soldier standing on a green emerald to spine. Rubbing to extremities; sunning to spine. Some touch up to past shelf-wear to top/bottom of spine. Green pictorial endpapers. Previous owners' inscription, dated 1906, to verso of frontis. Front and rear hinges showing. Small closed tears to bottom edges of p. 17-20, and to fore-edge of p. 47. Interior pages bright.
Synopsis
Book 2 of L. Frank Baum's immortal OZ series. Originally published 1904 by Reilly & Britton in Chicago, the title of the popular children’s novel by L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz, was shortened to The Land of Oz within the year. In The Land of Oz, an orphan boy named Tip lives under the guardianship of a wicked witch named Mombi. He intends to scare her with a pumpkin-headed wooden man he made when she returns home, but alas, she is not frightened and instead brings the wooden man Tip created to life with her newly bought Powder of Life. Later that night, Tip and the pumpkin-headed man named Jack Pumpkinhead escape with the Powder of Life, joined by a sawhorse Tip brought to life. They then proceed to partake in adventures throughout Oz, and Tip discovers the secret of his past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86675
- Title
- THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ
- Author
- Baum, L. Frank
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- The Reilly & Britton Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- The Wizard of Oz, Oz Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....