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Lot 149

BAUM (FRANK L.)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... With Pictures by W.W. Denslow, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Chicago & New York, George M. Hill, 1900

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BAUM (FRANK L.)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... With Pictures by W.W. Denslow, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with all requisite points called for by Hanff & Greene and Blanck, illustrations throughout including 24 colour plates (2 frayed at edges), occasional soiling, publisher's light green cloth, stamped in red and green (variant "B" with publisher's imprint at foot of spine in red sans serif font), illustrated paste-downs, recased, slightly rubbed and soiled, light dampstain on lower cover [Hanff & Greene I.1.B.; Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 111-113], 4to, Chicago & New York, George M. Hill, 1900

Footnotes

A good copy of the first edition of the first Oz book, with the text in the first state. The complex printing history of the book has been much written about, the main issue centering on the copyright page, which was in haste printed on the verso of the Introduction rather than on the verso of the title-page as required by law. Some copies, including ours, left the publisher before the mistake was discovered, with the verso of the title-page blank, but later copies had the notice added in with a stamp.

The other first issue points comprise: publisher's advertisement enclosed in box; page 14, line 1 reads "low wail on"; page 81, fourth line from bottom reads "peices"; perfect type in last lines of pages 100 and 186; page [227], line 1 begins "While Tin Woodman"; 11-line colophon enclosed in box; illustrated paste-downs with facing pages blank. This copy also contains the earliest states of the colour plates, the one facing p.34 with two blots on the moon, and that facing p.92 with red shading on the horizon.

Provenance: "A Merry Xmas... from Edie", presentation inscription facing front paste-down.

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