Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Baum, L. Frank. The Magical Monarch of Mo. Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1903.
Price: US$66.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light blue hardcover with title in white outlined in black, 2 color paste-on , green and white pictorial endpapers, 12 color plates, title page in orange and black, BRAUNWORTH in serif, and D in wizard shows only very slight damage. Edges of covers are worn with bumping and light fraying at corners and spine ends. Covers also show soiling and rubbing. The paste on is chipped, rubbed and lightly soiled. Bottom spine, top and bottom back cover show dog nibbling. FFE is torn out with light fingerprinting throughout the 137 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO. , 1903.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Baum, L. Frank. THE MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO. Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. Blue cloth stamped in navy & white, color pastedown cover illustration, colored endpapers, 236pp, 12 color illustrations by Frank Verbeck. First Edition, but not a first state (Braunworth imprint is in unserifed type, and on back of copyright, rather than title page, numeral appears on page 50, and caption on p. 121 is undamaged). There is a 1913 owners inscription. Cover faded and rubbed, minor restoration to endpapers.
Seller: Edward T. Pollack, ABAA, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Baum,L. Frank. The Magical Monarch of Mo. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1903.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original blue hardcover boards with intact paper illustration affixed to front. Spine reads Magical Monarch. First edition. Condition is very good, with no dust jacket. Binding is solid, interior pages are clean and fresh, and the twelve color plates by Frank Verbeck are vivid. Light wear to edges of boards. Endpapers front and rear are illustrated with blue line drawings. Title page reads The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People. Large 8vo. 237 pp. plus four blank pages following. A very nice copy.
Seller: Warwick Books, member IOBA, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Frank Verbeck, 9.25 x 7, cloth with pict label, 237 pp, inner hinges cracked, some text block cracking, covers moderately rubbed. FIRST ED, probably 4th Printing.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
L. Frank Baum. The Magical Monarch of Mo. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1903.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition in blue cloth with pictorial label in red and yellow, spine and cover stamped in black and white, pictorial endpapers in black and peach, illustrated with 12 full color plates and in in b&w throughout by Frank Verbeck. All plates present (frontispiece, and opposite page 6, 12, 34, 44, 74, 104, 130, 146, 168, 190, and 232). Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (1903), 237 pages. Good. Cloth and label have some soiling, sunned spine, edge wear with fraying at spine ends and tips. Book store stamp on front paste down, a couple of interior pages have modest soil, and a few have small tears. Cracked rear hinge with restoration.
Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 237 pp. Blue cloth, stamped blue and white titling, illustrated paste-down illustration of fairy folk. Significant fraying and soiling to cloth, heaviest along spine, text block lightly rolled, PO's inscription in blank ink to ffep "To Margaux from Junior. Christmas 1914". Discoloration scattered throughout margins, not interfering with text. The first full-length children's fantasy novel by L. Frank Baum after the publication of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. Whimsically illustrated by Frank Ver Beck.
Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, fifth printing, with orange and black endpapers, the plate facing page 74 oriented sideways, and the "D" in "WIZARD" on page 121 half-missing with flared ends. Originally published in 1900 as "A New Wonderland," reissued in 1903 under this title. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, with moderate rubbing and wear on the boards, and a small ink annotation on the top right corner of the front endpaper. Bienvenue, p. 210.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 237 pp. With pictures by Frank Verbeck. Square 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied illustration on front panel. First edition; second state. Schiller Collection #97; variant with orange printed endpapers; 12 color plates. Bookplate on pastedown; tiny ownership name stamp on flyleaf; a few smudges to the first few leaves. White lettering on the spine effaced; less rubbed on front panel. Spine a little tanned; corners of cloth frayed. Tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.