Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good- binding is light blue paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, illustration of Dorothy, Tinman, Scarecrow, and the Lion on the cover with red, Yellow and black lettering, rear cover illustration of Tinman Scarecrow, and the Lion, edge-wear, corners bumped and wear, wear at the head and foot of the spine, illustrated endpapers. Ink writing dated 1941 on the verso of front free endpaper. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Oskar Lebeck throughout the book.
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, 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.
Born and raised in Chittenango, New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theater producer and playwright. He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota and he edited and published a newspaper. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children’s literature, coming out with the first Oz book in 1900. Wikipedia
About the illustrator:
Oskar Lebeck (August 30, 1903 – December 20, 1966) was a stage designer and an illustrator, writer and editor (mostly of children’s literature) who is best known for his role in establishing Dell Comics during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Wikipedia
