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Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, first edition in the first binding.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908.
First edition, first issue, quarto; with the advertisement listing three titles on half-title verso; with 16 full-color captioned plates and numerous black-and-white text illustrations throughout by John R. Neill; Binding A: light blue cloth with the paper label on the front board in full color on a gold metallic background, spine lettered in black, with the silver metallic vignette of the Tin Man and the publisher's full imprint stamped in large and small capital letters at spine foot, yellow and black printed pictorial endpapers (one plate detached; minor marginal closed tear to page 70); housed in a custom green cloth clamshell box; 9 x 6 1/2 in.
