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SPEEDY IN OZ
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: Reilly & Lee Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 298. Illustrated with twelve color plates, all bound in the textblock, and many black and white ink drawings. Verso of plates uncoated. (Bienvenue 116; Hanff 99-100).
Red cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of three Oz characters with umbrellas. Black title and boy's profile to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Very light scratches to pictorial cover. Top corners lightly nudged. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Front and rear hinges showing. Half title, frontis, and title pages partially detached. Unmarked interior.
Red cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of three Oz characters with umbrellas. Black title and boy's profile to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Very light scratches to pictorial cover. Top corners lightly nudged. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Front and rear hinges showing. Half title, frontis, and title pages partially detached. Unmarked interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86654
- Title
- SPEEDY IN OZ
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum)
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- The Wizard of Oz, Oz Books
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- 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.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
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