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Ruth Plumly Thompson. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1929.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Covers shelfworn. Gift inscription from 1939 on the front endpapers.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
(L. Frank Baum) THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly.. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz.. Reilly & Lee,, Chicago:, 1929.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. Black and white illustrations throughout. An early printing. Moderate shelf wear and aging, age darkened along the spine, starting to show separation at the hinges, number stamped on rear paste-down, else good in dark green cloth with color paste-on illustration on front board. No dust jacket. ; 252 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.80 + shipping
Description: JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ, Reilly & Lee, (1929), faint stain to the lower section of the page edges with almost no evidence of bleeding on to the text block, slight soiling to a small area of the spine, else a tight, bright vg copy. Illustrated by by John R. Neill. A post 1935, but still early printing.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz. Reilly & Lee Co., 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket with Brodart cover. Profusely illustrated This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copyright 1929 by The Reilly & Lee Co. No other dates; early printing without color illustrations. Large 7" x 9 1/4" design. Bright red boards with sharp, mounted color plate, crisp black spine titles, generally near fine; some bleed at lower corner of back board. Front board features crisp full-size plate; some mounting offset. Pages near fine, clean. Antiquarian stamp at ownership page: "This Book Belongs To: 'Robert McLellan, 5263 M Street, Sacremento, California." Illustrated endpapers of Jack and Peter the Pitcher posing with oversize O and Z. Classic, whimsical full and partial-page illustrations, vignettes, headers and tailpieces by the inimitable artist, John Rea Neill. Rare dynamic and colorful pictorial wrapper, some chip, rub, moderate red bleed at back panel; unclipped 2.50, protected in new clear sleeve. Price appears as publisher's neat stamp at front and back flaps over original cost of 2.00. Flap corners slightly clipped originally from publisher or neatly by prior owner. Back flap with list for: "The Oz Books "Regular Editions" with durable cloth bindings and colorful jackets." Front and back matching pictorial panels featuring a gallent Jack with a real pumpkin for a head with sword pulled from sheath over sky blue b.g. Interestingly, both front and back panel titles state as misprint or other: "Illustrated by Jno R Neill." Sharp, generally near fine volume in rare original and intact wrapper. A new out of this world tale by Ruth Plumly Thompson founded on and continuing The Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum! Jack Pumpkinhead is the hero and his adventures are as strange and wonderful as any ever recorded by the Royal Historian. Of course Jack loses his head more than once during these episodes, but always some friend comes forward with a new pumpkin head and before the adventures end it really seems as though his pumpkin-seed brains are working better than ever. Peter, the brave young baseball pitcher from Philadelphia, who first arrived at Oz in 'The Gnome King of Oz,' is back and renews his friendship with Jack. In this adventure, Peter and Jack meet an Iffin - one of the most curious and remarkable creatures found in OZ. They are all friends and come to each other's rescue in all varieties of danger. You will hold your breath with anticipation in this tingling episode. Jack, Peter, and the Iffin confront Mogodore, a robber baron, who captures Princess Ozma and plans to force her to marry him and become the ruler of all Oz. How his wicked plans ultimately fail is captured in the final pages of this gripping Oz Story! 253 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copyright 1929 by The Reilly & Lee Co. Rare first printing with color illustrations. Large 7" x 9 1/4" design. Dark green cloth boards with mounted color plate, crisp black spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Front board features crisp full-size plate. Cover protected in thick clear sleeve slipped over front and back boards. Pages generally near very good; few with chip, discoloration, little smudge. Illustrated endpapers of Jack and Peter the Pitcher posing with oversize O and Z. Front endpaper with pre-printed vignette of slouching Scarecrow and Tin Man with child's ownership details: "This Book Belongs To: 'EMMA RAE ANDErSOn, FROM Aunt Berna & Uncle FRank, XMAS 1934.'" This first edition features the miasmic and highly sought plates by John Rea Neill in dynamic colors. All one dozen color designs are present and accounted for. Other classicly whimsical full and partial-page b&w illustrations, vignettes, headers and tailpieces throughout by the inimitable artist, also by Neill. Bind intact, square; front hinge reinforced. Near good solid rarity of this out-of-this-world tale and spectacle. A new out of this world tale by Ruth Plumly Thompson founded on and continuing The Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum! Jack Pumpkinhead is the hero here, and his adventures are as strange and wonderful as any ever recorded by the Royal Historian. Of course, Jack loses his head more than once during these episodes, but some friend always comes along with a new pumpkin head. Before the adventures end, it really seems as though his pumpkin-seed brains are working better than ever! Peter, the brave young baseball pitcher from Philadelphia, who first arrived at Oz in 'The Gnome King of Oz,' is back and renews his friendship with Jack. In this adventure, Peter and Jack meet an Iffin - one of the most curious and remarkable creatures found in OZ. They are all friends and come to each other's rescue in all varieties of danger. You will hold your breath with anticipation in this tingling episode. Jack, Peter, and the Iffin confront Mogodore, a robber baron, who captures Princess Ozma and plans to force her to marry him and become the ruler of all Oz. The story of how his wicked plans ultimately fail is captured in the final pages of this gripping Oz Story! Two printed pages at back with adverts for other available Oz titles. 253 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 111. Octavo. Original grey cloth, colour pictorial image pasted down to front board, titles and decoration to spine in black, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Frank Kramer. Spine gently rolled, corners and ends of spine rubbed, "book belongs to" page with tin man and title neatly water coloured in, pages mildly toned, mild soiling to rear cover, in the dust jacket with shallow chipping to corners, wear and short closed tears to extremities, closed tear at head of spine having been repaired with glue at verso. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom