296 Pp. First Edition, First Printing, Binding A. Dark Blue Cloth, Horizontally Ribbed, Front Cover Paper Illustration With Metallic Silver Background And Metallic Green Ink Embellishments, Spine Stamped In Black With Vignette Embellished In Metallic Silver With Variant Black Shoes And Paw, Reilly & Britton Spine Imprint In Upper And Lower Case, Variant 4 1/2 Cm Tall; 16 Full Color Inserts Embellished With Bright Metallic-Green Ink, No Captions Beneath Illustrations. This Binding Appears To Be A Variant, With Much Heavier Inking To Rabbit On Spine, Including Entirely Black Shoes And Paw, All Other Black Inking On Rabbit Much Heavier And Wider, Publisher's Name Is 4 1/2 Cm Tall Rather Than 4 Cm Tall, "Emerald City" And "Oz" Slightly Larger (Over 10/32" Tall Rather Than Exactly 10/32" Tall) Compared To Usual Imprint; This Variant Not Described In Bienvenue (The Current Major Bibliographic Reference Work On Baum's Book Publications). Light Wear, Mostly At Corners, Pinpoint Frays At Two Lower Tips, Four Small Frays At Bottom Edge Of Spine. Illustration Facing Page 240 Neatly Detached But Present, A Little Fraying Right Along The Outer Edge.

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Title

The Emerald City Of Oz (First Printing In Unrecorded Variant Of Binding A)

Publisher

Reilly & Britton, Chicago

Publication Date

1910

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good +

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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