OZMA OF OZ; A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907. John R. Neill. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tan boards with red, blue and yellow design featuring Ozma and Dorothy (cradling Billina the talking Hen in her left arm) all framed within a huge red letter "O" shot-through diagonally with a great, yellow "Z". Scuffing, spotting and soiling to boards, with shelf rubbing to top and bottom of spine. No plates per se, but the book is loaded with color images -- 40 full page color illustrations, including the lovely frontispiece of Ozma.
Binding B, with the letter "O" missing from Author's Note, p. 11, line 5, (as found in later copies of the first printing) Reilly & Britton lacking the "The" (Bienvenue). All illustrations present and accounted for.Only two advertisements on verso of ownership page AND on p. 272 -- The Land of Oz (1904), and John Dough and The Cherub (1906).
.P. 221 printed in color
Fabulously wild colored front and rear endpapers depicting all characters of this adventure. (Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 30) Shelf`wear and a bit of staining. Some pages show first inch or so of page separating where little kid fingers were probably leafing backwards to look at one of the many striking images.
Name of previous owner and address (Beatrice Dority / 889 Hackett Ave. Milwaukee, Wis. Mother") to verso of front free endpaper. Item #86618
Baum's Author's Note on p. 11 reads: "My friends the children are responsible for this new 'Oz Book'...Their sweet little letters plead to know more about Dorothy'; and they ask: 'What became of the Cowardly Lion....'...If...the little folks find this new story 'Real Ozzy', I shall be very glad indeed that I wrote it..."
Price: $1,650.00