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Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: CONDITION POOR. REISSUE(?) Boards worn. Hinges cracked. One page disbound. Biding cracked. Some internal soiling. Note at front endpaper. SOLD AS IS. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item are available.
Seller: Alphaville Books, Inc., Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
THOMPSON.RUTH PLUMLY. THE GNOME OF OZ. CHICAGO: REILLY & LEE, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FAIR ONLY.NO DJ.FIRST EDITION WITH SLL 12 COLOR PLATES IN VG+ CONDITION, JADE GREEN BINDING WITH LIGHT RUBBING, TOP OF SPINE FADED.MUCH CHILDISH COLORING OF BLACK AND WHITE DRAWINGS.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Green cloth cover with paste-down illustration (torn). Front hinge starting. Black and white end pages. 11 color plates (pages 46, 78, 94, 102, 126, 158, 174, 190, 206, 222, 278). Scuffed head and tail of spine.
Seller: Rosemary Books, Benicia, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later Reprint Edition, c. 1935 with the illustrations in black and white. Tightly bound in orange cloth with bright color label on the front cover. Very slight spotting to the rear cover and minimal binding wear otherwise near fine. The contents remain clean and unmarked.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., 1927.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Not a first [bound-in rather than tipped-in color plates] but an early printing [color plates only appeared until 1935]. Green cloth boards with pictorial paste-down front board. Rubbing to boards, tanning to spine, general age wear. Foxing to endpapers, title, occasionally throughout. Splitting at inner hinges but binding is intact. Most pages clean, plates vibrant.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The 7th book in the Oz series written by Ruth Plumly Thompson carrying on the tradition of the original 14 stories by L. Frank Baum. This is a true FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1927, with the lovely illustrations by artist John R. Neill, including pen-and-ink endpapers & internal illustrations (many full page), full-color frontispiece & all 10 full-color internal plates are present (though one has come completely loose). With green publisher's cloth over boards, black lettering & design to spine, publisher's name in the original plain, not fancy script, & a full-color front paper pastedown, in 282 pages. Condition is Fair, marred by these flaws: 1) heavy rubbing to extremities, with cloth covering the spine reglued along seams, with some splitting & fraying of cloth to all these seams & at both ends of spine & all corners, as well. 2) front paper pastedown is missing a rectangular piece from the upper outer corner, along with a triangular chip through Baum & Neill's names at the lower fore edge side corner. 3) Someone went mad with scissors in the first 32 pages, cutting out squares from the bottom outer corner on some pages & slicing others. Rest of pages are fine. Else, book is generally very clean, binding straight & strong, though rear hinge is cracked. Pages creamy white, with moderate tanning, heavier around edges; no foxing. "This Book Belongs To." box in front matter is blank, but missing a portion of the page (scissor damage) at bottom outer corner. NO writing or underlining or highlighting or coloring; not ex-lib. NO DJ. Outwardly rather ugly.but those scarce color plates! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of Oz. Reilly and Lee, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Post 1935 printing as there are no color plates. Covers worn, with mildew damage. Dust jacketbadly worn, with portions missing from the spine. As-Is.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome King of OZ. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, C. 1927, 1927.
Price: US$69.95 + shipping
Description: 9 1/4 X 6 7/8" in light green cloth with colorful pastedown on front cover. Covers moderately soiled, crayon mark along edge of spine near top, abrasion near top of cover illustration, both hinges cracked. Note: Black & White illustrations only.
Seller: THE BOOK VAULT, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1927.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated by John R. Neill. With 12 color plates. Covers worn and stained. One page torn and repaired with tape.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later Printing, c. 1935 or a bit after. GREEN cloth with full color paste front. No jacket. Spine cloth has two 'wrinkles' approx. 1" each, near bottom. Closed page edges have a few spots (stains), does not impact interior page margins at all. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean and tight interior pages. Book board corners are barely worn; one bump at lower edge front (does not detract at all.) Front free end-paper has seen a previous gutter repair. Mild foxing to end-papers. "This Book Belongs To' page has script ink name. 282 pages. A great early copy. Protected in a mylar slip.
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome King of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. 282pp. First edition with 12 color plates by John R. Neil. Bound in green cloth with paste-down illustration. Scattered foxing to first and last few pages. Bienvenue p. 109.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of Oz. Reilly and Lee, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Covers worn. Hinges cracked. Dust jacket worn and chipped.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 7th book in the Oz series written by Ruth Plumly Thompson carrying on the tradition of the original 14 stories by L. Frank Baum. This is a true FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1927, with the lovely illustrations by artist John R. Neill, including pen-and-ink endpapers, full-color frontispiece & all full-color internal plates intact!!! With green publisher's cloth over boards, black lettering & design to spine, publisher's name in the original plain, not fancy script, & a full-color front paper pastedown, in 282 pages. From a single owner collection, this hardcover book is in VG+ condition: very bright & clean, binding straight & strong, both hinges secure. Slight pushing to both ends of spine & rubbing to extremities/corner bumping, light soil. Pages creamy white, with moderate tanning, heavier around edges; no foxing. Front pastedown is bright & colorful, with very slight edgewear. "This Book Belongs To." page had a name in pencil, erased, but an old inscription dated 1933 remains in pen on ffep, else unmarked. Alas, NO DJ, but this is a lovely volume!Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific Time; later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. THE GNOME KING OF OZ. Chicago:Reilly and Lee Co., 1927.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Chicago:Reilly and Lee Co. 1927. 1st edition. 282pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by John R. Neill. Hardcover. Green boards with full color paste down on front cover lightly soiled and shelfworn with sun-fading to spine strip and light wear along edges, spine ends and edge points. Paste-down in very good condition. Internally end-pages decorated in black and white are lightly age-toned, with a previous owners name penciled to 2nd free end-page (ownership page), otherwise pages slightly age-toned but clean. All Illustrations present as called for. The binding is tight, but hinges, both front and rear, have cracked.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson. The Gnome King of OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This FIRST edition from 1927 is in near fine condition with clean interior pages and a green cloth cover with colorful full plate showing the gnome king and a young boy. The background black of the color plate is very slightly rubbed but does not affect the illustration at all. There are 12 color plates and pictorial end papers. This volume meets all points of issue for a first edition (Hanff and Greene). Edges and corners of the book have virtually no wear. There are 2 neatly handwritten numbers on the spine.No dust jacket. Picture available upon request.
Seller: Round About Children's Books, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome King of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co., 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth with illustrated cover label. Dust jacket lists to "The Yellow Knight of Oz" (1930). Very good in fair to good dust jacket. Text block tight and internally bright and clean, with a 3" closed tear to the lower portion of p. 97. Spine tips pressed, light wear and toning to board edges and corners, light bump to upper front corner, and small nick to rear board. Illustrated cover label clean and bright. Numerous short edge tears to dust jacket, with moderate to severe chipping to spine tips and corners, most notably a half-inch chip missing from upper spine removing "The" from the title, with general toning and soiling across all panels. In mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly. Gnome King of Oz. Very Good, 1927.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very Good, 1927. First Edition. Good +/No Dust Jacket. The Reilly & Lee Co., Pub., Chicago, IL., 1927, 1st edition; good+ condition, bound in hard cover cloth; Illustrated by John R. Neill; green cloth with color paste-down on front cover; color plates throughout; black illustration and lettering on spine; bl
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Thompson, Ruth Plumly (L. Frank Baum). THE GNOME KING OF OZ. Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, IL, 1927.
Price: US$303.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 283. Illustrated with twelve full-color plates and black and white ink drawings. (Bienvenue 109; Hanff 94). Supplied dustjacket (c. 1946) . Emerald green cloth boards with full color pastedown illustration of The Gnome King and his treasure to front. Black title and gnome head to spine. Publisher's yellow to edges. Light rubbing to extremities. A couple of wrinkles to cover pictorial. Top corners lightly nudged. Black and white pictorial endpapers. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Front hinge tender. Unmarked interior. Protected in mylar. Supplied dustjacket from later printing: dustjacket rear flap lists to #36 (Mimics in Oz, 1951). Several small closed tears and creases to dustjacket edges; chips to top and bottom of spine and to corners. Age-toning to dustjacket. Good Plus / Good Plus (supplied dustjacket)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 282 Pp. Emerald-Green Cloth, Color Paste-On Illustration, Illustrated Endpapers, B/W Illustrations, Color Plates. First Printing, In The Preferred Emerald-Green Cloth. See Bienvenue P. 109. Near Fine, Traces Of Rubbing, No Fading, Bright And Clean, No Marks, Thin Area Of Loss Of Paper Along Center Of Left Edge Of Cover Illustration.Hninges Cracked Throgh With Exposure Of Webbing.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly. The Gnome King of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago, 1927.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by John R. Neill. Small 4to. Green cloth with black spine lettering and large color plate to front board. 282pp. Color frontispiece, 11 color full-page plates, numerous black and white line drawings, black and white pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear and rubbing; endpapers a bit age toned; faint ownership signature barely discernible on "This Book Belongs to" leaf; half-title page bears inoffensive diagonal fold and 3/8" chip 3½" long along lower edge. Tight and nice first edition, with all proper points, of the 21st Oz title and the 7th by Baum successor Thompson. The color plates are all bright and spectacular, the text block near fine. HANFF 94.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Ruth Plumly Thompson & John R. Neill (illustrator). The Gnome King of Oz. Reilly & Lee, 1927.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardback, no dust jacket. 282 pages. Book is in excellent to near fine condition. Twelve full-color plates coated on both sides. Book has green cloth with black printing on the spine and a pictorial paste down on the front cover. Boards have an inch of rubbing on one edge and a tiny scuff on the back cover. One board corner has a small rub through. Light bumping on the spine ends. Mild soiling on the top page end. Book is slightly bowed. Spine is square. Hinges are intact. Pages are clean, but there is light foxing throughout (photos are representative). No writing inside. No funky smells. The 21st Oz book; the 7th by Ruth Plumly Thompson.
Seller: Bookworm and Apple, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, a lovely copy rarely found so bright - and rare in the original jacket. In this adventurous installment, the Gnome King's grudge against Ozma, the Scarecrow, and other beloved Oz characters leads to trouble. A classic, in beautiful condition. 9'' x 6.5''. Original green cloth, color pictorial paste-on. In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket with ads listing this title last on flap. Illustrated by J.R. Neill with 12 color plates (coated on both sides) plus and many black-and-white images. 282 pages. Jacket lightly soiled, with shallow edgewear and a few small tape repairs to verso. Book bright with just a bit of bumping to spine ends.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.