THE LAND OF OZ

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1914. First Edition, Fifth State. Hardcover. Octavo, 287 pages. In Fair condition. Tan spine with a black outlined and silver colored design and black lettering. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Boards have moderate age-toning, moderate wear and fraying along the edges, moderate shelving wear along the rear cover, moderate wear and fraying along the fore corners, tearing along the head joint corners, mild wear along the joints, moderate wear along the spine, and moderate wear and fraying along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has 2 loose color plates, bending wear along the head fore corners of several pages, tears along the fore edges of the color plates between pages 116-117 and 142-143, a tear along the tail edge of page 61, separating along the front end-page and color plate, tearing along the hinge of color plate between front-end page and title page, small stains on some pages, mild to moderate wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Contains 15 color plates with typeset lettering, missing color plate between pages 182 and 183. Shelved Room C. Greene/Hanff "Bibliographia Oziana Revised and Expanded" pages 48-49. The first Reilly & Britton Co. printing was published in 1904 under the title "The Marvelous Land of Oz", later shortened to "The Land of Oz" on the front cover and title page in 1914. 1386419. Special Collections. (Inventory #: 1386419)