The Marvelous Land of Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. 8vo (229 x 175 mm). Illustrated by John R. Neill. Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine stamped and lettered in color and blind, pictorial endpapers, housed in a lettered clamshell case. Condition: rear hinge slightly cracked; light spotting to covers, spine tips gently rubbed. first edition, second state with ‘published, july, 1904’ below copyright notice; b state of binding with ‘marvelous land of oz’ on front cover outlined in silver . Having resisted writing a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) for several years, Baum was finally seduced into publishing The Marvelous Land of Oz in his search of a successor to the hugely successful musical extravaganza of The Wizard of Oz . The play starred Fred Stone and David Montgomery as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and Baum dedicated the second Oz Book to these actors. Their photograph in costume appears on the endpapers. Baum dramatized The Marvelous Land of Oz as The Woggle-Bug , but this production did not duplicate the success of The Wizard of Oz .
The Marvelous Land of Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. 8vo (229 x 175 mm). Illustrated by John R. Neill. Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine stamped and lettered in color and blind, pictorial endpapers, housed in a lettered clamshell case. Condition: rear hinge slightly cracked; light spotting to covers, spine tips gently rubbed. first edition, second state with ‘published, july, 1904’ below copyright notice; b state of binding with ‘marvelous land of oz’ on front cover outlined in silver . Having resisted writing a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) for several years, Baum was finally seduced into publishing The Marvelous Land of Oz in his search of a successor to the hugely successful musical extravaganza of The Wizard of Oz . The play starred Fred Stone and David Montgomery as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and Baum dedicated the second Oz Book to these actors. Their photograph in costume appears on the endpapers. Baum dramatized The Marvelous Land of Oz as The Woggle-Bug , but this production did not duplicate the success of The Wizard of Oz .
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