A beautiful copy, clean and bright, scarce in such fine condition. Original cloth with minimal rubbing to spine ends, one small abrasion to bright mounted cover illustration. Contemporary gift inscription on ownership page. First edition, first state, with the publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the ownership leaf listing 11 titles, the last of which is this one. A remarkably lovely copy.īaum wrote this to please his many readers “who had wanted to know what became of the Munchkin girl that the Tin Woodman had been engaged to marry before he axed himself to pieces” (Eyles, 51). Octavo, original red cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition, first state, of Baum’s twelfth Oz title, delightfully illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous black-and-white drawings by John R. “HEARTS ARE MORE SCARCE THAN ONE WOULD THINK”: FINE FIRST EDITION OF THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZīAUM, L.
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