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Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. Reilly & Lee (1923), Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Red binding, pasate down pictorial cover (scraped), back cover badly mildewed, beginning & ending pages mildewed on edges, heavy edge wear (frayed).

Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.

Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$41.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Reading copy/no dust jacket. Later printing. 11 color illustrations ( missing the last one) Some of the plain illustrations have been colored in. Lightly shaken. Rubbing and edgewear and fraying to corners. Light soiling to boards. Reilly & Lee co. 1923.

Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.

Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1923.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: orange cloth binding with color paste-down front cover illustration. lightly rubbed cov ers. bright copy. front hinge lightly cracked

Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.

[BAUM] Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Illustrated by John R. Neill. THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original green cloth with bright illustrated pastedown on the cover featuring a boy and a clown on the back of the Cowardly Lion. Later printing with black-and-white instead of color plates. No markings, a very good copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.

Thompson, Ruth Plumly; [Baum, L. Frank]. The Cowardly Lion of Oz (The Oz Series Book 17). The Reilly & Lee Co., 1923.

Price: US$66.50 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1934-1950s printing (Bienvenue pp. 104-105). Includes original jacket. Base stained with significant transfer to jacket base, small tears along jacket edges, ink gift note on ownership page. 1923 Hard Cover. 291, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, black titles, lion vignette on spine, color paper label on front board, illustrated endpapers, black-and-white illustrations by John R. Neill. The third book in the continuation of Baum's immortal Oz series by Ruth Plumly Thompson, whose books are now considered part of the official canon - as such, it is considered the seventeenth book in the series overall.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Thompson, Ruth Plumly. (Baum, Frank).. The Cowardly Lion of Oz.. Reilly & Lee, 1923., 1923.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Early printing. 291 pp., 12 color plates with captions, b&w illustrated endpapers, 4to, dark green cloth with color pastedown. Fair complete copy with all plates and endpapers. One color plate loose. Both hinges badly cracked but holding. Cloth worn at tips and some spotting to rear board. Front pastedown ill. quite bright and only lightly worn. An average copy.

Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly. COWARDLY LION OF OZ. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Quarto, 291 pages, dark green cloth, pictorial label on top cover, hinges repaired, top cover plate scuffed at lower left corner; ex libris Lionel Worthall of Chicago. Illustrated by John R. Neill with twelve color plates - coated on one side only. There was only one printing of this first edition. This has the non-standard ampersand [ Bienvenue & Schmidt, pp. 104-105 ].

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First edition. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Small quarto. Green cloth with applied paper illustration. Pages 151 - 154 inserted photocopied sheets as well as missing the contents page with a photocopy of the contents page on a small piece of paper and laid in, spine ends repaired with corresponding green cloth, corners a little bumped, small chip on front board illustration, a fair copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

ruth plumly thompson. cowardly lion of oz. reilly & lee, 1923.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: later printing, before 1935. dark green boards. hinges slightly cracked. points & spine ends rubbed. binding cocked. pastedown on f cover slightly worn, w small nick top edge, but not faded. all color plates present. the one facing pg 225 has a 1/4" x 1/4" tear out of the corner, doesn't touch the image. endpapers toned, some discolorations back board. overall average. no dust jacket. 0.0

Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.

Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1923.

Price: US$130.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Non-standard ampersand on spine indicating this is a true first edition. First state with plates coated on the printed side only. 11 Full-Page Color Illustrations by John Neill (1 missing) Green cloth w/ paste-on ilustration. Very minor rubbing to illustration on front cover. Illustrated endpages. There is some warping to boards near spine. There is a puncture mark in spine. No name written in the "Book Belongs to" illustration. No writing in book. Clean crisp pages with exception of a few small minor stains on a couple of pages. Very Good condition! Size: 7 x 9"

Seller: P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller, Kettering, OH, U.S.A.

Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Cowardly Lion of OZ, The. Reilly and Lee 1923 Repaired, 1923.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Book condition: Gd+ ex lib Dust Jacket condition: No DJ

Seller: FrierBooks, Washington, IA, U.S.A.

Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion Of Oz. The Reilly And Lee Company, 1923.

Price: US$249.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First state with the non-standard ampersand on spine and 12 plates coated on the printed side only.

Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank. THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1923.

Price: US$345.00 + shipping

Description: Illustrated by John R. Neill. Enlarged and edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Brown boards, colour pictorial cover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. VG+.

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Cowardly Lion of Oz. The Reilly and Lee Company, 1923.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good Hardcover, 1923 first edition, pictorial cover, with 12 color plates and numerous black and white drawings, based on the Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum, spine and hinges reinforced by binder

Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.