The Lost King of Oz
by Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The Riley & Lee Co, (1925). First Edition. First Printing Very good+ in its original decorated blue cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with a printed paper label on the front board which has no damage to it. An octavo of 9 by 6 5/8 inches with a 1/3 inch closed tear to the cloth at the heel of the spine and very light rubbing to the cloth at the upper corners of the spine and over the tips of the boards. Without it issued dust jacket. 280 pages of text and illustrated with color frontispiece and 11 color plates and numerous black and white vignettes by John R. Neill. The letter "k" in the word "back" on line 4 of page 193 is missing its top serif indicating that this copy was not early in the first and only print run of this title. A very bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Bienvenue, p.107)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32440
- Title
- The Lost King of Oz
- Author
- Thompson, Ruth Plumly
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Riley & Lee Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- (1925)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....