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, three small scribble marks 1″ long on back outside cover, pictorial endpapers, neat name written in the “This Book Belongs to” box. The binding is tight and pages are clean with some toning. Black-and-white illustrations by Frank Kramer. Book Measures 6.9″ wide x 9.2″ tall.
About the Author:
John Frederick Snow (August 15, 1907 – July 13, 1956), born Piqua, Ohio was an American radio writer, writer of ghost stories, and scholar, primarily of the works of L. Frank Baum. When Baum died in 1919, the twelve-year-old Snow offered to be the next Royal Historian of Oz, but was turned down by a staffer at Baum’s publisher, Reilly & Lee. Snow eventually wrote two Oz books: The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) and The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949), as well as Who’s Who in Oz (1954), a guide to the Oz characters, all of which Reilly & Lee published. (Wikipedia)
About the Illustrator:
Frank Kramer (November 23, 1905 – July 10, 1993) was an American artist known chiefly for his illustrations for Jack Snow’s two Oz books, The Magical Mimics in Oz and The Shaggy Man of Oz, founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. He also illustrated Robert A. Heinlein’s Solution Unsatisfactory, Maureen Daly’s Twelve Around the World (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1957), and many of Caary Paul Jackson’s sports novels for children, including the Bud Baker series. (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)
