Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is red cloth over boards, pictorial past-on, light wear on the paste-on, spine shows light wear, light edge-wear, light corner-wear, loose cracked hinges, hand written name in “This Book Belongs To” box. Perfect type on pp 171 and 189 indicating a first printing. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean with some toning. Twelve full page color plus black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neil. Book Measures 7.1″ wide x 9.2″ tall.
About the Author:
Ruth Plumly Thompson (27 July 1891 – 6 April 1976) was an American writer of children’s stories, best known for writing many novels placed in Oz, the fictional land of L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. (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)
