Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Handy Mandy in Oz. The Reilly & Lee Company, Chicago, 1937.
Price: US$56.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Founded on and continuing the famous-Oz-stories" by L. Frank Baum. Colourful paste-down image on front cover. Hinges tight. Very clean. Spin is slightly faded.
Seller: ABC: Antiques, Books & Collectibles, Tantallon, NS, Canada
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. HANDY MANDY.. Reilly & Lee Chicago 1937, Chicago, 1937.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Bright tight condition hardback slight edgewear in Mylar
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
( Baum, L. Frank ) Thompson, Ruth Plumly & Neill, John R.. HANDY MANDY IN OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1937.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: HANDY MANDY IN OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1937, first edition, spine faded and a bit soiled with tiny circular cloth loss just below the spine center near the front hinge, small piece missing from the base of the front color pictorial paste-on illustration, some soiling to the rear cover, else a near vg copy with illustrations by John R. Neill. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper for the 1938 printing is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$202.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 275 Pp. 1937 Issue, Blue Cloth, Color Paste-On Illustration, White Endpapers, B/W Illustrations With No Color Plates, No "Popular Edition" Statement, Dj Same As Earlier Ones But Titles Through Handy Mandy (1937) On Rear Flap. Spine With Publisher's Name In Script. See Bienvenue P. 112. Very Good + Book With Rubbing At Edges, No Fading, Bright And Clean, Previous Owner's Information On Ownership Page. In A Near Fine Dj, Bright And Clean, Not Price-Clipped ($1.50), With Trace Of Rubbing At Corners.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum). HANDY MANDY IN OZ. Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, IL, 1937.
Price: US$303.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 246. Illustrated with black and white ink drawings. Spine illustration of Mandy's face. Sixteen page gatherings. (Bienvenue 119; Hanff 102). Supplied dustjacket (c. 1941) . Blue cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of Handy Mandy and hands to front. Black title and Mandy's face to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Very light scuffing to pictorial cover, with chip to top right corner. Bottom front corner just showing. Sunning to spine. Touch of spine lean. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Unmarked interior. Protected in mylar. Supplied dustjacket from later printing: dustjacket rear flap lists to #34 (Scalawagons in Oz, 1941). Chips to dustjacket's corners and bottom of spine. Age-toning to dustjacket. Good Plus / Very Good (supplied dustjacket)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson, L. Frank Baum. Handy Mandy in Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1937.
Price: US$375.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition. Near fine in good jacket. DJ price clipped to four corners, chipped at spine top/tail and at all corners. Signature in pencil to included ex libris page.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$472.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 306 Pp. First Printing With 16-Page Gatherings (Stitching Visible Along Center Between Pages 88-89 Etc.),Spine Illustration Of Mandy's Face, Red Cloth, Color Paste-On Illustration, Illustrated Endpapers, B/W Illustrations, Spine With Publisher's Name In Semi-Script Type. First State Dj With Titles Through Handy Mandy On Rear Flap. See Bienvenue P. 119. Near Fine Book, No Fading, Bright And Clean, Previous Owner's Information On Ownership Page, Very Slight Rubbing, Hinges Tight. In Good First State Dj With Wear, Shallow Chip At Lower Corner Of Front Panel, 1" Along Bottom Edge And 3/4" Up Flap Fold, Minute Loses At Spine Ends, Red Ink Transfer At Very Bottom Spine Edge Of Dj But No Trace Of Dampstaining On Book.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
L. Frank Baum. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co. of Chicago, 1937.
Price: US$500.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth installment in L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz series, which ultimately outlived him. This copy includes a dust jacket, though the dust jacket is only in fair to good condition. There is a piece missing on the bottom left of the dust jacket, see cover. There is also a tear along the outside edge of the front cover, and along the rear bottom of the back cover along the bottom outside edge. The dust jacket also has scuffing near the book's endcaps along the spine, and its edges. The book itself, however, is almost in fine condition. The cover under the dust jacket is unblemished, as is the spine and rear cover. This book is dedicated to William Page Slagle Jr. in 1937, meaning it could not have been printed later than that year. Since it does not have color plates, it must have been printed after 1935, meaning it was printed between 1935 and 1937. Also, Handy Mandy in Oz was published in 1937, and that's the latest book written in the series at the time of this copy's publication. During this period, an Oz book came out every year. So this book was printed before the Silver Princess in Oz was published in 1938, meaning its earliest printing was the run after color plates were no longer used, and its latest printing was that right before The Silver Princess in Oz. William Page Slagle Jr. put his name in the section of the book that says "this book belongs to". All interior markings are in pencil and could be removed, they have been left in by this collector to the buyer's discretion. There is a sticker above the initial inscription, and the inscription indicates this book was given to young Slagle by his mother on Christmas. See pictures. All pages sit firmly in the binding and this collector observed no other markings. 226 Numbered Pages.
Seller: Antique and Collectible Books, Lead, SD, U.S.A.