Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ binding is grey cloth over boards, pictorial past-on, light wear on the paste-on, spine shows wear to head and foot, lite edge-wear, lite corner-wear, cracked hinges, page 313 has a corner missing (.6″ tall by .6″ wide) not effecting text or illustrations. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers, rear free endpaper has a tape repair for a tear and a corner missing (1″ wide by 1/2″ tall). Outside page edges have some soiling but does not affect interior pages. The binding is tight and pages are clean with some toning. Full page color frontispiece plus black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neil. Book Measures 7.1″ wide x 9.2″ tall.
About the Author:
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children’s fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema. (Wikipedia)
About the Illustrator:
John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 – September 19, 1943) was a magazine and children’s book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty books set in the Land of Oz. Those books include all but one of those written by L. Frank Baum, as well as those written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and three that Neill himself wrote. He also illustrated other books, and magazine and newspaper stories.
It has been said that “Neill possessed a sweeping flair and whimsicality that brought Oz even more vividly to life,” and that although Neill “is particularly remembered for his imaginative concepts; his technique, composition, and draftsmanship were equally outstanding.” (Wikipedia)
About the Publisher:
The Reilly and Britton Company, known after 1918 as Reilly & Lee, was an American publishing company of the early and middle 20th century, best known for children’s and popular culture books from authors like L. Frank Baum and Edgar A. Guest. Founded in 1904 by two former employees of George M. Hill’s publishing company, Frank Kennicott Reilly and Charles Sumner Britton. Reilly continued to lead the company until his death in 1932. Britton left the firm around 1916 to start a new company in New York, and for a time the company was guided by William F. Lee, who died in 1924. (Wikipedia)
