Thompson Ruth Plumly Founded Continuing (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Color Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. 298 Pp. Orange-Brown Cloth, Paper Cover Illustration. 12 Full Color Plates. First Printing; ( Later Printings Omit The Color Plates). Wear, Small Frays At Edges; Hinges Completely Intact; No Ownership Information; Front Pastedown B/W Illustration And Some Interior B/W Illustrations Have Been Partly Or Wholly Hand Colored, Fairly Accurately.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. {6 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} Aqua-green cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Large damp stain covers half of rear board fore-edge and top edge. Top of spine is pulled. With pictorial plate pasted-down on front cover. Children's scrawl/hand lettering in pencil and red crayon within the illustration of front end papers and the 'This Book Belongs To:' page on 2nd page forward. HInge of front end pages and rear end pages are split and hang only by threads. Front boards worn at edges and corners are rubbed through so that brown boards below are esposed. [298 pages].

Condition: NEAR FINE. Early printing. The 29th of the "Famous Forty" Oz books. After L. Frank Baum's death, Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz series, writing 19 Oz books. John R. Neill, the original illustrator of the Oz books, also went on to write and illustrate his own Oz books. The list of books on the rear flap of the dj list to The Magical Mimics of Oz (shown in the list as 36, but actually 37).Black and white illustrations by John R. Neill 298 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Near fine in brown cloth with a full color pasted on illustration in a very good dust jacket. (small chip at top of spine of dj, other minor wear, price on dj has been stamped over with 2.50.) The upper corners of a few pages are slightly bumped, but binding and front illustration is bright and beautiful.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. dj is price-clipped and shows minor wear and chipping. pages lightly tanned and clean.

Purple Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Color Plates (illustrator). First Edition, First Issue. 281 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, Binding "A" With Publisher's Imprint In Boldface Type, 12 Color Plates. A Clean Example Previous Owner's Name In Pencil, Rubbing At Each Corner Of Cover Illustration But Just One Tiny Abrasion, A Few Points Of Fraying To Cloth At Corners, Some Loss Of Cloth In Gutter Of Front Cover, 3/4" X 2" Light Water Stain On Rear Cover, Pencil Ownership Signature.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Color Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. 280 Pp. Medium-Dark Blue Cloth, Stamped In Black, With Color Pate-On Illustration. Illustrated Endpapers And All 12 Color Plates Coated On One Side Only. First Printing, Plates Coated On Printed Side Only, Later State Of First Printing With Broken "K" On P. 193. Bright And Clean, No Marks, Light Rubbing At Corners, No Fraying, Rear Hinge Cracked.

Early printing of Thompson's eleventh fantastical continuation of Frank Baum's world of Oz. Octavo, original cloth with color pictorial paper onlay, illustrated plates by John R. Neill. In good condition, signature to the ownership page. Ruth Plumy Thompson was chosen by Baum's publishers to continue the 'Oz' series due to her talent for storytelling and her familiarity with the world of Oz. In 'Pirates in Oz,' Peter Brown returns for a third time, washing up on the Octagon Isle after a shipwreck, where he joins King Ato of the Octagon Isle, who has been abandoned by his subjects, and Captain Samuel Salt, who has been abandoned by his crew of pirates, on a journey across the Nonestic Ocean.

HARD BACK RUST. Condition: GOOD. JOHN R. NEILL (illustrator). pictorial cover; bumped corners; rubbed with small tears on top/bottom spine and corners;printed : The book belongs to: signed by owner; yellow edge pages; pictorial covers; b/w plates hand colored pages 8 colored plates; some b/w illustrations hand colored; b/w illustrations on fep; very appealing to the eye DATE PUBLISHED: 1928 EDITION: 283.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Color Plates, Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Chicago, IL: Reilly & Lee Co. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (1925). . Hardcover. Sm 4to., 280 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, endpapers toning .

Early printing of Thompson's eleventh fantastical continuation of Frank Baum's world of Oz. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Illustrated plates by John R. Neill. Ruth Plumy Thompson was chosen by Baum's publishers to continue the 'Oz' series due to her talent for storytelling and her familiarity with the world of Oz. In 'Pirates in Oz,' Peter Brown returns for a third time, washing up on the Octagon Isle after a shipwreck, where he joins King Ato of the Octagon Isle, who has been abandoned by his subjects, and Captain Samuel Salt, who has been abandoned by his crew of pirates, on a journey across the Nonestic Ocean.

First edition, first printing of Thompson's eighth fantastical continuation of Frank Baum's Oz stories. Octavo, original red cloth with color pictorial paper onlay, illustrations by John R. Neill. In good condition. Slight rubbing to the extremities. Watercolor to the illustration on the front pastedown by a previous owner. Ownership signature in black crayon to the ownership page. First issue with the perfect, undamaged 'r' on page 116 and all color plates present and accounted for. Ruth Plumy Thompson was chosen by Baum's publishers to continue the 'Oz' series due to her talent for storytelling and her familiarity with the world of Oz. In 'The Giant Horse of Oz,' she introduces child readers to new and whimsical characters, telling the story of the malevolent lake beast Quiberon's demand for three mortal maidens and two groups' quests to resist him.