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(MOSER, BARRY / PENNYROYAL PRESS.) Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Printed in 5 colors. 62 wood engraved illustrations by Barry Moser. Folio, cream paper over linen boards embossed and lettered in gilt on front cover and in blind on rear cover; patterned endpapers; housed in original beige cloth clamshell box. Proceeds of the sale of this lot will support the non-profit organization Cancer Connection, Northampton, MA. West Hatfield, 1985
number 160 of 350 copies signed by moser. and containing the the booklet entitled "Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" also Signed by Moser, laid in. An imaginative production, with characters loosely based on figures in the Reagan administration. The work contains an appreciation by Justin G. Schiller and is printed by Harold McGrath, designed by Barry Moser; the type is Van Dijck, printed on Mohawk Letterpress archival paper with hand composition by P. Chase Twichell, and with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge. It is beautifully bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery. 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the famous film based on Baum's story.
