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Jack Snow ( L Frank Baum). THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ. The Reilly & Lee Co., 1949.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean with little external wear. Front hinge weak but no thread showing. 1949 Reilly and Lee. Front paste down quite bright. No dust jacket.Front end paper has a sticker and a bit of scribble. This book belongs to is empty. Back cover has a bit of staining and the spine is slightly sunned and soiled.
Seller: Memphrebooks, Magog, QC, Canada
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing (no indications of later printings, illustrated endpapers). Large 8vo. Grey-blue cloth with cover pasteon illustration. Second of the author's books continuing the Oz franchise. Child's bookplate on front free endpaper. Very good copy with a horizontal abrasion about midway up the height of the cover illustration (possibly due to imperfect gluing) and some tiny abrasions around the letters at the top. Lacks dust jacket. Includes a poem by Baum published for the first time. We are listing four Oz books from the same owner, the other titles are The Lost King of Oz, The Hungry Tiger of Oz, and Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (all by Ruth Plumly Thompson); no extra-item charge for domestic media mail if more than one title is purchased. The Thompson titles have the signature of the owner on the page rather than a bookplate.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
( Baum, L. Frank ) Snow, Jack. THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1949.
Price: US$69.60 + shipping
Description: THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1949, first edition, light wear to the lower fore edge corner tip of the front cover, one leaf with a fold at the upper fore edge corner, some fading and foxing to the spine, some modest stains to the rear cover, else a tight, bright vg copy. Illustrated by Frank Kramer.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early Reprint Edition, ca. 1949., with titles through "Shaggy Man" on the rear DJ flap. Close to a Fine copy bound in gray cloth with a bright color illustration on the cover paper label. Extremely slight shelf wear only. The previous owner's name and date are inside, otherwise the contents are unmarked. This issue's illustrations are in B/W. The dust jacket is stamped with the publisher's revised price. It shows small chips and edge wear and light rubbing and remains very good. A nice copy.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
(L. Frank Baum) SNOW, Jack.. The Shaggy Man of Oz.. Reilly & Lee Co.,, Chicago:, 1949.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black and white illustrations throughout. An early printing. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in light blue/green cloth with color illustration on front board. No dust jacket. ; 255 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Snow, Jack. The Shaggy Man of Oz. Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$119.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 254pp.; HB yellow w/blk.; some rub w/spine darkened; tanning on endpapers; clean,tight pgs. DJ blue w/red-pic.cover; rubbed w/chips&tears; some sun on spine; 38 titles,bk.flap. "Founded on & Continuing the Famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum" -- Shaggy Man and a little band of travelers try to find their way back to Oz. b/w illus.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Jack Smow - L Frank Baum. THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ. reilly & lee comapny chicago, 1949.
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1949 Edition hardcover book NEAR FINE clean copy no writing in or on book, binding is solid, cover has very minor corner bumps, paste down jacket insert
Seller: ODDS & ENDS BOOKS, Sherwood Forest, CA, U.S.A.
Snow, Jack. The Shaggy Man of Oz. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow. (L. Frank Baum). First edition in original cloth and pictorial pastedown. Publisher: Reilly & Lee, Chicago, (1949). First edition with spine in semi-script, pale yellow paper stock, light gray cloth and 16 page gatherings. Hanff, Greene, page 115. Binding is in near fine condition, slight rubbing to the pastedown. Contents clean no writing. 254 pages. Inventory #23-076. Price: $250.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Snow, Jack.. The Shaggy Man of Oz. The Reilly & Lee Company, Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Founded on and continuing the famous OZ STORIES by L. Frank Baum. . Cover is lightly rubbed and soiled, former owner's signature on pre-printed ownership page, minor crayon marking on ffep. VERY GOOD. . B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 254 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Snow, Jack. The Shaggy Man of Oz. Reilly & Lee Company (1949), Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray/green cloth. Lettered in black to the spine. A large color plate mounted to the front. Illustrated endpapers. Very tight and without names or bookplates. Very minor foxing to the endpapers and several tiny spots of foxing to the page edges. The lower corners are slightly bumped. The dust jacket lists to itself on the rear flap. There is some foxing to all panels. Small chips to the corners. Fairly minor edge wear. There is a long, closed tear beginning at the mid-rear flap edge and then angling down to the lower fold corner. Price of $2.00 to the front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (Bienvenue p. 134). Includes original jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1949 Hard Cover. 254 pp. 8vo. Light green cloth, color picture plate on front board, black-and-white illustrations by Frank Kramer. The second book in the continuation of Baum's immortal Oz series by Jack Snow, following the sequels written by Ruth Plumply Thompson and John R. Neill. These books are now considered part of the official canon - as such, it is considered the thirty-seventh book in the series overall.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
BAUM, L. Frank. SNOW, Jack.. The Shaggy Man of Oz.. Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Founded on and Continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum. 255 pp. Illustrated by Frank Kramer. 8vo, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration, in dust jacket. First edition; later printing with blank endpapers. A bright, fine copy with the slightest of fading to the very top edge of the boards; in a bright jacket with some slight use at extremities and one tiny (1/8") chip. The bibliographer did not see this jacket; it is undescribed.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Snow, Jack; [Baum, L. Frank]; Kramer, Frank. THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ. Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Very scarce first edition of this later Oz novel, one of just two published by Snow following Ruth Plumly Thompson, L. Frank Baum's first authorized successor. Quarto. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. In original first state dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Black and white illustrations. 32-page gatherings. 255 pages. HG xxxviii. Slight chipping to upper edges of dust jacket. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
( Baum, L. Frank ) Snow, Jack. THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ. Reilly & Lee, 1949.
Price: US$551.00 + shipping
Description: THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1949, first edition, upper right corner tip of front cover ever so gently bumped, else fine in bright vg+ dust-wrapper save for some light wear and tear and chipping, mostly at the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Illustrated by Frank Kramer.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
[BAUM, L. Frank] SNOW, Jack.. The Shaggy Man of Oz.. The Reilly and Lee Co., Chicago, 1949.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 255 pp. Illustrated by Frank Kramer. 4to, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration, in dust jacket. First edition. Small address sticker applied to "bookplate" page; a bright, fine copy in a bright price-clipped jacket with some shallow chipping at the top of the spine and corners.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.