Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is green paper over boards, front shows the Oz characters with lettering in white, yellow and light blue, spine shows lettering plus an image of Dorothy and Toto, rear cover shows the characters with sign “To The Emerald City”, shelf-wear, corner-wear, edge-wear. The binding is tight and pages are clean with some toning, page 43 has tape repaired tear. Black-and-white illustrations by Rita fava throughout the book. Book Measures 5.3″ wide x 7.5″ tall.
About the Author: (From the book)
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American journalist and playwright: he was born in Chittenango, New York. From 188o he was on the editorial staffs of newspapers in South Dakota and Chicago. Although he wrote other books, including Mother Goose in Prose (1897), it is for those about Oz he is remembered. The Wizard of Oz (which was made into a musical comedy and much later a motion picture) was first published in 1900 and The Land of Oz in 1904
About the Publisher:
Looking Glass Library
Epstein & Carroll Associates, Distributed by Random House (New York, US)
Series dates: 1959-1961
Epstein & Carroll Associates was a division of Random House founded in 1959 and managed by Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and the illustrator Edward Gorey. It published 28 titles in the Looking Glass Library, and only those titles, between 1959 and 1961. A few reprints were issued through the 1960s, and some titles reissued in the 2010s. (seriesofseries.com/looking-glass-library/)
