first edition Hardcover
1922 · Chicago
by Thompson, Ruth Plumy; Illustrated by John R. Neill
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 297pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. Yellow text block edges. Standard ampersand on spine. Illustrated endpapers printed in black. Illustration on p. [299] captioned "Princess Dorothy." Extremities moderately rubbed. Text block just beginning to crack at p. 233, but remains very solid. Publisher's yellow stain bleeds ever so slightly into the margins of the plates. No dust jacket. Complete with all twelve full-color plates by John R. Neill. This is the sixteenth book in the Oz series. Bienvenue p.103. Hanff/Greene p.88-89. (Inventory #: 67575)