 Author Name: Baum, L. Frank
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Good +
Edition: Reprint Edition
Size: 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Publisher: Chicago Rand, McNally & Co.
Illustrator: Denslow, W. W.
Seller ID: 005340
A facsimile reproduction ( copyright 1956 by Reilly & Lee, published by Rand McNally) of the book first published in 1900 with many of the original W. W. Denslow illustrations.
Pictorial cloth over paper wraps. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, small crease across lower corner, slight edge wear, a little darkening. A number of pages with corners bumped, some darkening to edges. An attractive copy with b/w illustrations throughout. From the April, 1900 Introduction by L. Frank Baum: "Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out."
"It is in this book that Oz is 'discovered.' A little Kansas girl - Dorothy Gale - is carried in her house to Oz when a cyclone whisks it through the sky. As the house lands in the Munchkin Country (one of the four great countries of Oz) it destroys a wicked witch and sends Dorothy off on her first adventure in Oz. She finds the Scarecrow, meets the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, melts a second wicked witch with a pail of water and finds her way home."
Vintage Children's Fiction, Oz (imaginary place), Munchkins (fictitious characters), Emerald City (imaginary place), The Scarecrow (fictitious character), The Tin Woodman (fictitious character), The Cowardly Lion (fictitious character), Dorothy Gale (fictitious character)
Price =
8.75 USD |
