$1,260
Estimate: $600 - $900
Auction: September 21, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., (1907). First edition, first state (meeting all of Greene & Hanff's points). 8vo. 270 pp. Profusely illustrated with color frontispiece and numerous plates and in-text illustrations in color and in black and white, by John R. Neill. Original first state pictorial light-tan cloth, stamped in black, red, blue, and yellow, very light scattered soiling to boards; all edges trimmed; illustrated color endpapers; gutter slightly worn, p. 112; in quarter morocco slip case and chemise. Greene & Hanff pp. 50-51
A beautiful and unsophisticated copy of L. Frank Baum's third Wizard of Oz book.