May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) BAUM, FRANK L. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated with 16 color plates with metallic green ink, numerous other illustrations by John R. Neill. 8vo, original blue cloth, pictorial cover label (one corner chipped), slightly shaken, rubbed with exposure to extremities, fingersoiling; contents with occasional blemish or closed tear, pencil marks and owner's signature, rear endpaper corner torn, rear hinge splitting. first edition, first printing in the primary binding. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 47. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., (1910)

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with-Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Wishing Horse of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill with 12 full-color plates coated on the printed side. 8vo, publisher's olive cloth with pictorial label affixed to front cover and spine titled in black, mild rubbing to extremities; dust jacket, shallow chipping to spine panel tips, few short closed tears, light rubbing; rear hinge starting. First edition, first state, with color plates and blank endpapers. In the scarce first issue dust jacket with 28 titles listed on the rear flap. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1935). Hanff, Greene, et al., pp. 100-101.