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Item Details
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| Author: |
Baum, L. Frank |
| Title: |
The Emerald City of Oz |
| Place: |
Chicago |
| Publisher: |
The Reilly & Britton Co. |
| Date: |
[1910] |
| Item # : |
177494 |
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| Sale Number |
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343 |
| Lot Number |
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9 |
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| Illustrated and Children's Books, including Oziana and Dick & Jane |
| Sale Date |
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11/09/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1035 |
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| Description: |
| 295, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates embellished with metallic green ink & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, light blue cloth, pictorial cover label embellished with metallic silver & green ink; pictorial endpapers in black & orange. First Edition, First State. |
| First state with advertisement on verso of ownership leaf listing titles through John Dough and the Cherub. The binding features the elaborate cover label showing a number of characters traveling through the city, spine lettered in black with picture of a rabbit in black and silver. The striking use of metallic ink on the illustrations and cover label can only be found in this state. Hanff & Greene VI, plate 38. |
| Condition: |
| Just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, leaning slightly; ownership leaf filled out in ink, dated Xmas 1910, else fine. |
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