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Baum, L Frank. The Emerald City of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1931.
Price: US$95.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in orange cloth with the cover plate and jacket of the third design by John R Neill and introduced in 1929. Both front and rear flaps of jacket list through the Pirates in Oz and there are no color plates thus dating this to circa 1931.Imprint on spine and dust jacket in "boldface". Ownership space is filled in and dated 1936.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 280pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with a full-color illustrated label that covers the front board. Title printed in black on the backstrip. Publisher's imprint in bold face. The text block edges have the publisher's bright yellow stain. Endpapers illustrated in black and white. Illustrated with 12 full-color plates. Jacket is not present. Binding 'A'. Several small white stains to the rear board; rear hinge split; front hinge soft; small bites to the top fore-edge corners of a handful of pages. This is the twenty-fifth book in the Oz series. Bienvenue p.113. Hanff/Greene p.97-98.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1931. First Edition in binding variant A with spine imprint in boldface. Large octavo. 280 pp. 12 color plates, including frontis, complete; numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout. Dark green cloth stamped in black with front cover paper label full color illustration. Illustrated endpapers, printed in black. No dust jacket. Light wear to extremitiesm, some rubbing to front illustration, corners bumped. Boards a bit shaky in binding, but overall holding. Ownership page filled in but interior else unmarked. Twenty-fifth entry in the Oz book series, and picks up with Ruggedo the Gnome King seven years after Peter Brown hit him with a silence stone at the end of The Gnome King of Oz. [Bienvenue p. 113].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
[BAUM, L. Frank] THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly.. Pirates in Oz.. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1931.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 280 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white by John R. Neill. 4to, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration on front panel (lacking dust jacket). First edition. Some light use and rubbing to cloth; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
BAUM, L. FRANK. DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ. The Reilly and Lee Company, Chicago, 1931.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Dust jacket chipped at extremities, no loss of lettering. Priced at $1.00 on jacket spine. Water-stain on jacket spine and lightly on periphery of first three pages only. The jacket blurb lists 24 titles ending with "Pirates In Oz" which was published in 1931. Several closed tears in jacket repaired with archival tape on inner surface. Black and white illustrated endpapers. Color illustrated frontispiece with all other illustrations in black and white. Color frontispiece was discontinued in 1935. This is a later Popular Edition of Greene-Hanff 4. A clean and crisp copy throughout. 226pp. Size: Large Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Lg. 8vo. 280 pp. Numerous full page & text black & white illustrations. Bright green publisher's cloth, w/ colour plate by John Neill mounted on front cover, illustrated endpapers (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art by Neill repeated (slight chipping head of spine, couple very minor closed tears), NF/VG copy. Later printing of No. 25 in the Oz series, without the colour plates, and publisher's spine imprint in semi-script, ads on rear flap listing to Silver Princess, and with $ 1.50 price. Bienvenue & Schmidt, p. 113.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. PIRATES IN OZ. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1931.
Price: US$258.75 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by John R. Neill. Enlarged and edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Beige boards, pictorial cover in colour. Pictorial endpapers. Bottom and top of spine shows a little wear. VG-.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
( Baum, L. Frank ) Thompson, Ruth Plumly & Neill, John R.. PIRATES IN OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1931.
Price: US$284.20 + shipping
Description: PIRATES IN OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1931, first edition, first state, 2 small marks to the upper spine, upper right corner of spine a bit bumped, else a vg+/near fine copy with all 12 full color plates present and in fine condition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum). PIRATES IN OZ. The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, IL, 1931.
Price: US$413.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 280. Illustrated with twelve color plates and many black and white ink drawings. Binding A: Publisher's spine imprint in "boldface." (Bienvenue 107, Hanff 92). Supplied dustjacket (c. 1939) Dark green cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of a pirate and boy looking out to sea. Black title and pirate's face to spine. Publisher's yellow to edges. Very light rubbing to extremities. Black and white illustrated endpapers. Unmarked interior. Spine and hinges tight. Supplied dustjacket from later printing: dustjacket rear flap lists to #31 (The SIlver Princess in Oz, 1939). A few old mildew stains to front flap of dustjacket. Very Good Plus / Very Good (supplied dustjacket)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$430.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NODustjacket, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1931, VG+/VG+, AS-IS, illustrated Color Cvr green cloth with paper pictorial Label of Pirate & Boy intact with various Colors lightscuff wear label, Cover light rub, wear Scuff tiny chips Tears Extremities & edge spine & Sunning Spine, Interior nice tight clean light wear FoXing thruout, outer edges pages yellowed stained by Publisher, color illustration FoXing Blank margins , 280 pages, 8vo - over 734" - 934" tall, , spine imprint in Black boldface: "Reilly | & Lee".Founded On & Continuing famous Oz Stories Series by L. Frank Baum, COLOR Frontispiece FOXing, former name on this book belong to page
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
( Baum, L. Frank ) Thompson, Ruth Plumly & Neill, John R.. PIRATES IN OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1931.
Price: US$1072.52 + shipping
Description: PIRATES IN OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1931, first edition, first state, fine with all 12 full color plates present in vg/vg+ full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some modest professional restoration to the dust-wrapper spine extremities.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.