L. Frank Baum; Ike Morgan [illus.]. The Woggle-Bug Book. The Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$1050.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1905. First Edition in second state binding B with pale-yellow background and "The Woggle-Bug Book" printed in yellow to rear. Folio. 48 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Recent green cloth spine; thin pictorial cardboard covers. Expertly repaired with new green cloth spine, repair of corners, minor tears repaired, cleaned, tape removed. General smudging and rubbing, binding sound, preliminaries foxed, but overall pages unmarked and legible throughout. Published to coincide with the play of the same name, the book itself faired poorly and the play closed soon after opening. Due to its large format and fragile nature, one of the harder-to-find Baum items. [Bienvenue & Schmidt 217-219 pp.].

Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank. The Woggle-Bug Book. Reilly & Britton Company, Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: According to the Bienvenue and Schmidt Bibliography, this is Binding A. Folio. 15" x 11". The front cover is printed on a background of gray-green. The back cover is blank. The spine is in green cloth. The front and rear hinges are reinforced with a white strip of tape, as originally published. Every page is illustrated in color by Ike Morgan. There is wear to the spine ends. The covers are worn with some soiling and crackling. Each cover has a piece missing to the lower fore corner. The front cover has several tears, all of which are repaired to the verso with clear tape. The inside, rear cover has large areas of darkening, likely from old pieces of paper laid in loose. A former owner inscription in pencil to the inside, front cover that is dated 1908. Very tight with no loose pages. There are a few pages with some light soiling. A good copy of one of Baum's scarcest books. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall

Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank.. THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK.. The Reilly & Britton Co: Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$1725.00 + shipping

Description: Illustr by Ike Morgan, 15 x 11, green cloth backed flexible pict boards, unpag, covers quite worn, fore corners missing, some cover staining, hinges loose, contents worn and browned (esp at corners), stain to gutter at bottom, scattered soil. SWAF. FIRST ED, second state (with pale background on cover).

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank. The Woggle-Bug Book. Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: color illustrations (by Ike Morgan), 48p. Flexible illustrated paper cover backed in green cloth. First state cover with background field in gray-green. 39cm. Upper right corner reattached on front; the covers are otherwise intact but with some staining, spotting, wrinkling and other wear. A minor bit of gnawing on bottom edge. Contents generally sound and appealing despite a few edge tears, a bit of soiling and some minor offsetting. Upper right corner of the title-page discolored where the cover corner was detached. Now protected in a green cloth-covered clamshell box with a color photocopy of the title-page mounted on front. The Woggle-Bugs were not mentioned in any of the standard published Oz books. Their existence was revealed by Baum in "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz," a series of 27 weekly stories that were published in various Sunday newspapers in 1904. These stories were not collected and published in book form until 2009. This rare book recounts the subsequent non-Oz adventures of Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug after he becomes separated from his companions. See Bibliographia Oziana, by Greene and Hanff at pages 78-80 (in the Revised 1988 edition) for more about this book and detail as to how copies with this gray-green background field were established as the 1st State contrary to previously accepted cover priority.

Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank; Morgan, Ike. THE WOGGLE-BUG BOOK. The Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition of this rare Land of Oz spin-off, featuring a character from THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ (1904) that Baum made the hero of his newest stage musical. Upon the publication of THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ, the new character of Professor H.M. Woggle-Bug "became something of a national fad and icon" (Zipes). Just as the theatrical adaptation of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ met with great success, Baum hoped to capitalize on the popularity of the character by producing a stage musical of MARVELOUS LAND, but named after Woggle-Bug. That same year Baum published this short work, building upon his companion newspaper series, "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz." The musical flopped, and the book (which relies regularly on racist humor) appears not to have faired much better. Poorly produced, it is infamously difficult to find in any kind of intact condition and has become one of the Oz books most talked about but least seen. 15'' x 11''. Original quarter green cloth, stiff pictorial card wrappers with yellow stipple background and the title in yellow on rear wrapper. Illustrated by Morgan in color throughout. [48] pages. Faint staining and soiling to wrappers, as common; small portion of front bottom corner restored, same corner of title page a little frayed, else internally clean.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Baum, L. Frank. The Woggle-Bug Book. Reilly & Britton Co, Chicago, 1905.

Price: US$4200.00 + shipping

Description: Slight wear and a touch of soil to covers and spine. Interior is fine. Overall condition near fine. 15" x 11-1/8". Perfect bound, green cloth spine, pictorial heavy card stock boards. 48 colorful pp. With custom made clamshell box covered in green cloth to match the book's spine

Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.