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- [THE WIZARD OF OZ] -- L. Frank BAUM
[THE WIZARD OF OZ] -- L. Frank BAUM (1856 - 1919).Animal Fairy Tales. Set of corrected printer’s proofs for the first collected edition published by The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc. in 1969. 144 ff. (275 x 195 mm). Condition: a few small tears to first and last pages. Provenance: Fred M. Meyer Collection. [With:] MARTIN, Dick. Eight drawings for this title. Comprising five chapter title lettering (“The Story of Jaglon,” “The Stuffed Alligator,” “The Discontented Gopher,” “The Enchanted Buffalo,” “The Transformation of Bayal the Porcupine” and “The End”) and three headpieces (“Prologue,” “The Discontented Gopher” and “The Transformation of Bayal the Porcupine”). (Averaging 60 x 65 mm to 111 x 100 mm). Condition: light thumbsoiling. Provenance: Fred M. Meyer Collection.[And:] BAUM, L[yman] Frank.Animal Fairy Tales. [Kinderhook, Ill.]: International Wizard of Oz Club, [1969, 1989]. Second printing. 160 pp. Small 8vo (215 x 140 mm). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Condition: slight vertical crease at rear. Provenance: Fred M. Meyer Collection. Baum had always wanted his “Animal Fairy Tales” to be collected in book form and instructed his publishers to publish the anthology after his death. But when his widow broached the subject with the publishers in 1921, Reilly & Lee gave the lame excuse that the Charles Livingston Bull pictures could not be reproduced clearly and that the cost of commissioning new ones would make the price of the book prohibitive. The truth was they were only interested in continuing the Oz Books. It was not until 1969 that the Wizard of Oz Club finally brought them out in book form.
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