425 + [3] ad pp. Illustrated with numerous illustrations by Milt Youngren. 10.6x8.7 cm (4¼x3½"). Color pictorial boards, First Edition.
Signed by author on title. Scarce, unauthorized Oz story. "Frank Joslyn Baum, L. Frank Baum's eldest son, wanted to continue the Oz series, but ... by the time that he was able to return to the United States, Ruth Plumly Thompson had become Royal Historian of Oz. He wrote a full-length fantasy ... but Reilly & Lee would not publish it. A portion of the manuscript was published in 1934 by the Whitman Publishing Company as The Laughing Dragon of Oz, a volume in the "Big Little Book" series. Reilly & Lee brought suit against Whitman. The matter was settled when Whitman agreed not to reprint The Laughing Dragon of Oz or to publish The Enchanted Princess of Oz." (Bienvenue & Schmidt p.152).
