With perfect type last line of pages 100 and 186. Pictorial endpapers the front paste-down is in black and gray, the back paste-down is black and red.

Contains ALL first state textual points: Page, the publisher's advertisement is enclosed in a box page 14, line 1 has 'low wail on.' page 81, fourth line from bottom has 'peices' page, line 1 begins: 'While Tin Woodman.' the colophon at the end of book is set in eleven lines and is enclosed in a box. 259,, , pages illustrated with twenty-four inserted color plates (including title) by Denslow. Original light green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green, pictorial pastedown endpapers (issued without free endpapers), housed in custom archival light green cloth clamshell box with dark green morocco title label. 1st line reads 'While the Woodman', colophon in 13 lines with no box, verso title page has copyright, imperfect type on pages 100, 186, color plates perfect on p. With no box around ads on page 2, 1st line on page 14 reads 'low wail of', p.81 fourth line from bottom spells 'pieces' correctly, p. Hill Co.' stamped in red serif typeface on spine, 'o' within the 'C.' Illustrated pastedowns in black and grey (front) and black and red (rear). Original full green cloth stamped in red and green, 'Geo. This is a remarkable, beautiful, clean copy of the first edition. The original story may surprise readers, with silver shoes instead of ruby slippers, and an Emerald City that is green only because the visitors must wear colored goggles. Yet over the years Dorothy's journey with her motley friends has proven fertile soil for a variety of new interpretations, including THE WIZ (1978) and WICKED (1995), demonstrating its power as a modern mythos. The Oz books offered a dream world for the children of Manifest Destiny, emigrating across the West. Baum has a complicated legacy: he was also a newspaperman whose opinions on Native American rights were especially pernicious. Denslow and Baum would soon part acrimoniously over the share of the profits (Denslow purchased, no joke, an island from his) the rest of the Oz books in Baum's lifetime were illustrated by John R. Their instinct was right: the book quickly became the fastest selling children's book in the United States, and was soon turned into a sensation at the theater. The expense turned publishers away until Baum and Denslow took the gamble to pay for the printing costs themselves. Denslow envisioned an elaborate production of color-printed plates to reflect the role that color plays in the story. Although it was only one of four books Baum published in 1900, THE WIZARD OF OZ was his most ambitious as a publication: he and illustrator W.W. First edition, second state, of the classic American fairy tale, a remarkably beautiful copy.

The wizard of oz original book