Title: The Gnome King of Oz Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Lee Date: [1927] Description: 282 pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by John R. Neill. 23x17 cm (8¾x6½"), bright emerald cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Rare in original dust jacket. Bound in what is likely the earlier of the two known shades of binding cloth. This copy is from the library of Justin Schiller, with his bookplate laid in, which identifies this copy as having been lot #374 in the auction of his collection. Jacket with titles through 'The Gnome King of Oz'. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 109; Hanff & Greene XXI. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket flap corners clipped, several small chips at edges, a 1x¼" piece missing along edge of spine panel (no loss to text or illustration), a bit soiled and rubbed; volume spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, endpapers faintly fixed; else a near fine, bright copy in a very good jacket. Item number: 234470
Title: The Gnome King of Oz Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly Place: Chicago Publisher: Reilly & Lee Date: [1927] Description: 282 pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by John R. Neill. 23x17 cm (8¾x6½"), bright emerald cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Rare in original dust jacket. Bound in what is likely the earlier of the two known shades of binding cloth. This copy is from the library of Justin Schiller, with his bookplate laid in, which identifies this copy as having been lot #374 in the auction of his collection. Jacket with titles through 'The Gnome King of Oz'. Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 109; Hanff & Greene XXI. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket flap corners clipped, several small chips at edges, a 1x¼" piece missing along edge of spine panel (no loss to text or illustration), a bit soiled and rubbed; volume spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, endpapers faintly fixed; else a near fine, bright copy in a very good jacket. Item number: 234470
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