THE LAND OF OZ; A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz / By L. Frank Baum / Illustrateded by John R. Neill
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1939. John R. Neill. Popular Edition = revised & larger 1904 first edition. Cloth with glossy colored cover. Quarto (9 7/16" x 7" x 1 3/4"), dark green cloth with black title on spine & General Jinjur in black standing + glossy picture on cover of the Wizard reaching to touch little Dorothy's hand as the Tin Man & Scarecrow watch happily; illustrated by John R. Neill with many in-text B&W drawings and several plates, 287, [288] pages. Weight: 2 lbs. Good +. Item #10419
Scarce POPULAR wartime 1939 edition of this 2nd in The Land of Oz' series. It was one of two Oz books originally illustrated by Neill with full-page watercolors; (the other being The Emerald City of Oz (1910).
L. Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and many scripts.
GOOD externally (solid and tight) and VERY GOOD internally. Moderate wear to color plate on cover and edge-&-corner wear. The B&W illustrations and all pages are quite clean, unfoxed, and without marks or sciribbles. No ownership or other marks by previous booklover. Ships bubble-wrapped in a stout box.
Hanff, Greene, Martin, Greene, and Haff, Bibliographia OZiana, pp.49f.
Price: $65.00