Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
L. Frank Baum; Lisbeth Zwerger [Illustrator]. The Wizard of Oz. North-South Books, 1996.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bookplate signed by Zwerger is laid in. The binding is tight, a tiny bump on the bottom corners of the front and back panels. Text and images unmarked. Green tinted glasses in rear pocket. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 4to. 103pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz. Michael Neugebauer / North South Books, 1996.
Price: US$106.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2nd printing. Signed by illustrator on bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Includes 3D glasses and large color poster. 1996 Large Hardcover. 103 pp. "For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz (signed). North-South Books, New York, 1996.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg. 4to picture book, illustrated boards, illustrated in color throughout Lisbeth Zwerger. Limited to 500 copies signed and numbered on tipped in print of the travellers on the yellow brick road. Fine in fine, die-cut cloth-covered slipcase.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slipcase, limited edition with signed print. Emerald green glasses in pocket in rear. From the colophon This is a Special Limited Edition of 500 copies which contain a special piece of art, signed and numbered by the artist and printed on handmade paper using a screenless lithographic technique. Printed by EBS, Verona Italy. Very good condition in very good dust jacket and slipcase.(10).
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Number 152 from an edition of 500 copies. Includes numerous color illustrations by Zwerger. A fine copy with green glasses in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown in a fine dust jacket and very good die-cut cloth slipcase with a small stain. Tipped in original piece of art on handmade paper using a screenless lithographic technique. Signed and numbered by Zwerger. A terrific new interpretation of this classic. Despite the size of the limitation this would seem to be fairly uncommon.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.