Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Baum, L. Frank The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 24 color plates including pictorial title and over 100 text illustrations. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth with early professional restoration to spine, joints, and edges, scattered moderate soiling; endpapers re-laid, paper restoration to a few margins including front endpaper, decorative title, and plate facing page 160, scattered mild foxing and finger soiling. Chicago: George M. Hill, 1900
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First Edition, Second State, with "pieces" spelled correctly at page 81, 4th line from bottom; page [227] begins with the words "While the woodman..."; imperfect type on last line of pages 100 & 186; verso of title page with printed copyright notice; advertisement facing the title-page is not in a box; second states of color plate facing page 34 (no dark-blue blots on the moon) and that facing page 92 (without red shading on the horizon); state 3 of the spine imprint. Connolly 38; Hanff & Greene I;2.