The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Overview:

  • Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Author: L. Frank Baum
  • Year: 1960
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Price: $1.45
  • Pages: 267+[24]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Notes:
    Verified from library copy without original cover (re-binding, no Catalog ID or Price) • 1st printing. Information on this book from The Whole Science Fiction Data Base No. 3 & ABE.

    Data added from verification copy:
    • (c) 1960 Dover Publications, Inc; SBN 486-20691-2; LCCN 61-428
    • ... "All text and color illustrations from the original edition are reproduced in this edition.// This edition also includes the following new material by Martin Gardner: Introduction to Dover Edition and Chronological Checklist of Books of Fantasy by L. Frank Baum." (the former signed "Dobbs Ferry, New York// June, 1960" where it ends on page 5)
    • Denslow illustrations begin on copyright page (rather than title page as original edition, 1900)
    • 24 color plates (one the original title page) follow pp 28 and 156 in two lots of 12, in sequence as thruout the original
    • more than 100 two-color illustrations
    143 illustrations -- Dover description of the current issue, January 2016 WorldCat library record OCLC 317664747 (as 1960, with ISBN that implies a later printing) notes (quote two lines): -- "The original edition faithfully reproduced with 120 two-color illustrations and twenty-three color plates, large clear type for enjoyable reading." -- Reprint of the 1900 ed., published by G.M. Hill.

    1969 price $1.75 (as serial number 20691-2) from panel advertisement NY Times 1969-04-13 pBR31, "Off-trail paperbound books from Dover, at lowest prices", with order form.

    Cover image may not be that of the 1960 ed./printing
    • At Amazon.com 2018-04-27 (ASIN, below) two dealers specify series Dover Children's Classics (perhaps later printing but no ISBN reported); the other (ASIN B010DQ53B6) specifies June 1960.
    • WorldCat library record OCLC 317664747 (as 1960, with ISBN that implies a later printing): -- links thumbnail image of front cover matching that at Amazon; -- notes "Reprint of the 1900 ed., published by G.M. Hill.", so that use of this cover illustration and color combination is expected.