Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1936. First Edition. Illustrated by John R. Neill. First state with the sixteen-page gatherings. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($1.50), generally rubbed and soiled, a circular stain at the front flap fold, generally creased and with shallow chips. Blue cloth, lightly rubbed, with a pictorial pastedown on the front board, stained matching the jacket. Square, bound with a little reading wear, foxed at the edges, toned at the endpapers, former owner's information on the half-title, clean otherwise. The thirtieth book in the Oz series and Plumly's sixteenth entry, the story of Captain Salt and his merry crew as they explore the Nonestic Ocean.

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Bookseller: Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9885
Title: Captain Salt in Oz
Author: [Baum, L. Frank] Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1936
Keywords: Oz, Wizard of Oz, Fantasy, 20th Century Fiction, Pirate

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Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
First State: used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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