THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. John R. Neill. FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 287. Illustrated with sixteen full-color plates and many black and white ink drawings. Binding A: Green-colored cloth. Front title is without silver outline. On copyright page: last typeset line reads "All rights reserved". Illustration facing p. 23 captioned "I DON'T WANT TO BE A MARBLE STATUE". Thickness of book is almost 1.25 in. (Bienvenue 21-22; Hanff 45-46)
Green cloth boards with black title 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; soiling to boards. Spine legible, but well worn. Corners nudged. Chips to top/bottom of spine; cracking along front joint. Green pictorial endpapers. Previous owners' name to verso of frontis. Fingerprint smudges to title page, and occasionally throughout. Bottom of p. 125 shows repair of small closed tear and (repair of) a chip to bottom corner. Good Only. Item #86676
Price: $2,750.00