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Brown cloth binding, no priority established. “The earliest copies of the first printing show perfect type at the top of page 150,” as is the case here (Bienvenue, 81). But the map that appeared as the endpapers in Tik-Tok of Oz”- the same map reproduced, with slight changes, as this 1920 promotional piece-“shows them reversed” (Eyles, 55). The map has long baffled Oz enthusiasts: “Munchkin country was originally established as being in the east part of Oz, and Winkie country in the west. First edition, with 13 Oz titles including this one listed on verso of half title and the rare “Professor Wogglebug” map laid in, as issued by Reilly & Lee with all Oz volumes sold in 1920. “According to family legend, he spoke his last semi-conscious words to his wife, drifting away after a quiet reference to the deadly desert one had to traverse the reach the Land of Oz: ‘Now we can cross the shifting sands…” (Fricke, 41). At his death, on May 6, 1919, “he was the most celebrated children’s author of his time” (Eyles, 51). Partially written by Baum’s wife, Maud, Glinda of Oz-an adventure some readers classify as, in a minor departure for the series, an intriguing hybrid of pure fantasy and genuine science fiction-saw print only after Baum died.

Neill, also with the scarce promotional, full-color map of Oz laid in. Octavo, original brown cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition of Baum’s 14th and final Oz book, with 12 color plates and numerous in-text illustrations by John R. FRANK BAUM’S FINAL OZ BOOK, GLINDA OF OZ,WITH THE RARE PROMOTIONAL MAPīAUM, L. “THE MOST HIDDEN MYSTERIES OF MAGIC”: FIRST EDITION OF L.

Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum