May 16, 2002 - Sale 1936

Sale 1936 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,415
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BAUM. L. FRANK. The New Wizard of Oz. Illustrated by W.W. Denslow, including 16 tipped-in color plates. 8vo, original publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in orange and black, with the Tin Man device stamped on the rear cover, the crow's eye in orange and the full title on both spine and front cover, blank endpapers; minor wear at spine ends. second edition, first state<> with the two entry copyright notice (no priority established). Hanff & Greene I.2. Indianapolis, 1903

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A handsome copy of the first "sub-edition" and perhaps the one most responsible for widely popularizing the OZ story.<