PBA Galleries

6 volumes in 1, paginated separately, approx. 196 pages in all. Illustrated with color plates throughout by John R. Neill; ownership page designed by Maginel Wright Enright. 19.5x15 cm. (7½x5½"), yellow cloth, spine lettered in red-orange, color pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers printed in blue; dust jacket. First Combined Edition, Second State, Binding A, jacket in first state.

Second state, printed on a rougher paper stock, rather than the original smooth paper stock, and the volume is approximately 1-1/8" thick (instead of being just 1" thick), including the covers. The binding is Bienvenue & Schmidt's A state, yellow-orange cloth rather than tan. The very rare dust jacket is in first state, with six titles on rear panel through The Patchwork Girl of Oz; the first state jacket was issued with both first and second states of the book. The second state of the jacket, issued in 1916, lists titles through Rinkitink in Oz. Bienvenue & Schmidt p.88; Hanff & Greene Addenda (pp. 85-86), Plate 69; Baughman 82; TBB Christmas 1970, p. 11.