LOT #45270 |
Sold on Oct 8, 2014 for: Not Sold
L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition, seco...
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Description
First Edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, With a Leaf Inscribed by L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago and New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First
edition, second state of the text. With an inserted blank
(page [3]), inscribed by the author: "To Mabel and John
Burrows/from/L. Frank Baum/October[?]/17/1901". Plate facing p.
34 in the first state, with the two dark blue blots on the moon,
and the plate facing p. 92 in the second state with the red shading
on the horizon removed. Quarto. 261, [1, blank] pages. Twenty-four
inserted color plates (including title). Publisher's light green
cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green
(variant "C" with publisher's imprint at foot of spine in red in
serifed type). Pictorial pastedown endpapers (issued without free
endpapers). Rebacked, preserving the original spine, binding soiled
and somewhat worn, hinges starting, some plates apparently supplied
from other copies, a few leaves with short tears, minor chipping or
creasing to upper edge, some toning, occasional soiling in text.
Still, a very good copy.Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 111-113. Greene and Hanff, pp. 25-27.
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2014 October 8 Rare Books Signature Auction - Beverly Hills #6112 (go to Auction Home page)
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