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Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictorial tan cloth binding slightly rubbed at spine ends & corners; backstrip a bit sunned; owner's name in ink on front free endpaper; small plate tipped-in at rear endpaper; leaf edges smudged, else a very tight & clean copy of this Frank L. Baum (writing as Floyd Akers) book. No dj. ; Nice black & white frontis illustration by E.A. Nelson; BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS SERIES #4. ; BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS SERIES #4 Series; 12mo; 324 pages
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. The Road to Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by John R. Neill. First edition, mixed state on different colored stock with most of the first state points present, but with the typographical damage to words "Toto on" on p. 34 and page number on p. 121 (not found in true first state); in Binding A with publisher's name on spine imprint in uppercase and lowercase letters. Publisher's original green cloth, with illustrations by John R. Neill stamped to front board, red and black pictorial endpapers; lacking dust jacket as usual. About very good, with rubbing to illustrations on boards, illustration to spine mostly faded, light wear to tail of spine and lower board corners, and some minor imperfections to pages, including a bit of soiling to bottom of pp. 76-77, and some pages with small closed tears. Overall, a solid copy of a classic title from the Oz universe. The fifth of Baum's Oz books, The Road to Oz documents Dorothy's journey with her dog Toto through a series of adventures as they attempt to show an old man the way to a neighboring town. Along the way, they meet some characters including Button-Bright, a little boy who is perpetually lost, and Polychrome, the daughter of the Rainbow. Eventually, their journey leads them to the Land of Oz, where they celebrate Princess Ozma's birthday. Interestingly, the book was first printed with pages of different colored stock to represent the colors of each country through which Dorothy travels throughout the story.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank ( Akers, Floyd ). THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN CHINA. Reilly & Britton, 1909.
Price: US$1496.12 + shipping
Description: THE BOY FORTUNE HUNTERS IN CHINA, Reilly & Britton, 1909, lst ed., slight fraying to the head of the spine, else a tight vg copy in the publishers original pictorial binding stamped in white and black. Scarce.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback NODustJacket, 1909, 1st Edition, 1ST Printing, VG-/GOOD ,NOJacket, AS-IS, Brown Tan with red & Green Illustrated Cloth Lettered in Black & Red on front & spine Cvr, Cover light Rub, Wear , Stiffness when you open book, Approx 5 X 7 1/2 in, Interior nice Tight, Light FoX, SOME small Stains, 325 Pgs + Ads in back include The Airship Boys, Aunt Jane's Nieces series, and Annabel. Cover is nice and bright, with just some slight rubbing & wear edges & Extremities, The book is a bit cocked, Tiny chips spine cover ends, Spine is generally good with minor fading, Binding and pages are very solid. Otherwise clean and bright, with no tears, odor ,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.