Written by L. Frank Baum, An inked SIGNED Inscription by Ruth Plumly Thompson to Ruth M. Stauffer. Illustrated by John R. Neill, Blank Endpapers Pencil Name Stains, Inner Hinges slightly Cracked,. The Road To Oz , with SIGNED INK Inscription by Ruth Plumly Thompson Author of Other OZ books After Baum's Death , Illustrated by John R. Neill , For the first time since the original 1909 edition of The Road To Oz,. Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1909.

Price: US$2100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: NOT SIGNED BY FRANK BAUM, BUT An inked SIGNED Inscription by Ruth Plumly Thompson to Ruth M. Stauffer, HARDBACK NODJ, Copyright Publication Date 1909, LATER PRINTING, VG-/GOOD-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Dark blue CLOTH cover paste-down illustration with a yellow background & Lovely Girl with Short Blonde Hair wearing Hat with Long Black Ribbon & white Dress & with Tinman, Scarecrow & Cowardly Lion shows Ligh Stain on her Dress Top & , publishiers Pre list THRU "The Hungry Tiger of Oz" 1926 ,Covers are faded, worn corners frayed as well as the spine ends. The book is somewhat warped, but tight and solid. Rear hinge cracked and back end papers are water stained.Text is lightly water stained on top of 14 pages which does not interfere with the text. Otherwise the text is very clean. Great association copy. Cover slight rub, wesr & Outer Hinges tiny Tears WEAR ALONG SPINE, . the 126 masterful illustrations are printed on colored papers, exactly as Baum intended. This deluxe facsimile of the fifth Oz adventure introduces new characters such as the lovable Shaggy Man and beautiful Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. Black-and-white illustrations. B/W illustrations Except for the illustration on the dedication page which is colored Orange Black & Green Pumpkinhead wearing Yellow Pants & Holding Doll in Long Green Dress & Orange Hat and dedicated to Baum's first Grandson Joslyn Stanton Baum ,Former owner has written in colored pencil his name and a 1937 date with a notation that this book was signed by Thompson, B/W Frontispiece Calling On Jack Pumpkinhead,

Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.

BAUM, L. Frank. [BAUM, Maud Gage]. The Road to Oz.. The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago, 1909.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: 261 [2, ads] pp. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Large 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth. First edition. Illustrated front free endpaper lacking (it has been absent a long time, as there is slight offsetting from the illustrated pastedown onto the signed page opposite); neat repairs to backstrip which is slightly sunned and frayed at extremities. Maud Gage Baum's copy, with her small illustrated bookplate, her signature on the "This Book Belongs to" page, and beneath that the annotation, "This is a first edition of the "Road to Oz" - from my Grand Mother Baums library - Florence Baum Hurst, April 22, 1945."

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.