Thursday, March 25, 2010

WIZARD OF OZ BOOK





THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
Geo.M. Hill Co, 1900
261 pages
Illustrated by W.W. Denslow
Written by L. Frank Baum

FIRST EDITIION FIRST STATE

24 COLOR PLATES
plate 34 has two dark blue blots on the moon pictured
plate 92 has red shading on the horizon pictured

SPINE HAS C outside of the O as stamped on spine thusly....GEO.M.HILL CO.
Either in color green or red stamped


PAGES OF COLOR PLATES
12/14 (Earliest plates may be those on page and then later page 14)
20, 34, 36, 44, 56, 66, 80, 92, 102, 114, 126, 138, 150, 160, 170,184,198,212
220,228,246,254


TEXTUAL POINTS

PAGE FOURTEEN...line one

"low wail on..."

PAGE 81, FOURTH LINE FROM BOTTOM

"peices" spelled wrong, later changed to pieces

PAGE 227. LINE ONE

"While Tin Woodman.."

COLOPHON AT END OF BOOK is eleven lines enclosed in a box

VERSO OF THE TITLE PAGE is either blank or rubber stamped copyright notice,,blank being the earliest

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