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(PENNYROYAL PRESS.) Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Printed in 5 colors. 62 wood engravings by Barry Moser; an original signed pencil drawing and an additional signed wood engraving, numbered 34/50. Folio, cream paper over linen boards embossed and lettered in gilt on front cover and in blind on rear cover; patterned endpapers; housed in a beige cloth clamshell box. (West Hatfield, 1985)
numbered 203 and signed by moser, but with the two additional plates from the deluxe edition of 50 copies. The total edition is 350. 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.
