The Tin Woodman of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

illustrated by John R. Neill 

First edition.  Chicago:  The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Red cloth covers have pictorial plate laid on. 
• Boards show some smudges, edgewear, a ripple to back cover.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.
• Spine has black text and is a little faded with softened ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure.  One plate, facing page 152, is loose.  See photos. 
• Illustrated end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear; a bookseller sticker is inside the back cover.  See photos.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations, color plates and in-text line drawings, are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some smudges, light edgewear at head of plate facing pg. 152, a couple closed tears as at foot of pg. 22.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• PS2026.0429

288 pages. 6 5/8 x 9 inches

First Edition.  Large octavo.  Publisher's red cloth with pictorial title plate laid on.  Full color illustrated plates are all present; one is loose.  One of the 'Famous Oz Books,' the very popular children's fantasy series.  Generously illustrated, large type suitable for young readers or reading aloud.  No owner's marks.  A Very Good indeed copy of this first issue.

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), the self-styled "Royal Historian of Oz," was the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), which garnered both critical acclaim and financial success.  The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication.  Baum wrote thirteen further Oz titles based on the places and people of the Land of Oz.  He was also the author of many other novels, poems, and short stories, some of which appeared under pseudonyms, as well as numerous scripts.  Baum showed a deep flair for the theatrical in much of his creative output.  Though he did not live to see the 1939 film, it was very much in keeping with the fantastical world he created in his Oz novels.

The illustrations are the work of John Rea Neill (1877–1943), a magazine and children's book illustrator.  Neill illustrated more than thirty books set in the Land of Oz.  Those books include all but one of those written by L. Frank Baum, as well as those written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and three that Neill himself wrote.  

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