BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. 4 o. Pictorial title-page; 24 color plates, numerous text illustrations by W.W. Denslow. Original pictorial green cloth, blocked in dark green and vermillion, pictorial endpapers (very slight wear to spine ends, hinges tightened, foot of spine repaired, slight retouching to some outlines on cover image); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Roland Baughman (1902-1967), noted Baum collector and scholar, Head of Special Collections, Columbia University Libraries from 1946 until his death in 1967 (small signature on final leaf verso). His Baum collection was exhibited in 1956 at Columbia, and he co-edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue with Joan Baum ( L. Frank Baum: An Exhibition of His Published Writings, in Commemoration of the Centenary of His Birth, May 15, 1856 , Columbia University Libraries, 1956). A BRIGHT COPY OF BAUM'S MASTERPIECE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, in Hanff & Greene's binding C, with publisher's name in serifed type in red at foot of spine. Lyman Frank Baum began writing 25 years before The Wizard of Oz was published, when he founded a newspaper in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After leaving the paper, "he went on to manage opera houses, act in the theater, and establish a magazine for window dressers" but the success of The Wizard of Oz "kept him writing Oz books for the rest of his life: and even beyond his life, for after he died in 1919 others were commissioned to write more books about the Wizard" (introduction, Maurice Hungiville, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was , Gardner and Nye, eds., East Lansing, 1984). Along with his writing, Baum dabbled in related creative enterprises, such as a never realized Oz amusement park, on Pedloe Island off the coast of California, which he had purchased for this purpose; and a film company, founded in 1914, which produced the first two Oz film versions. (The 1939 landmark film adaptation starring Judy Garland was actually the third cinematic portrayal of Oz.) Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod , pp. 111-113; Hanff & Greene (1988) I.1; Morgan/ Early Children's Books 214.
BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. 4 o. Pictorial title-page; 24 color plates, numerous text illustrations by W.W. Denslow. Original pictorial green cloth, blocked in dark green and vermillion, pictorial endpapers (very slight wear to spine ends, hinges tightened, foot of spine repaired, slight retouching to some outlines on cover image); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Roland Baughman (1902-1967), noted Baum collector and scholar, Head of Special Collections, Columbia University Libraries from 1946 until his death in 1967 (small signature on final leaf verso). His Baum collection was exhibited in 1956 at Columbia, and he co-edited the accompanying exhibition catalogue with Joan Baum ( L. Frank Baum: An Exhibition of His Published Writings, in Commemoration of the Centenary of His Birth, May 15, 1856 , Columbia University Libraries, 1956). A BRIGHT COPY OF BAUM'S MASTERPIECE. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, in Hanff & Greene's binding C, with publisher's name in serifed type in red at foot of spine. Lyman Frank Baum began writing 25 years before The Wizard of Oz was published, when he founded a newspaper in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After leaving the paper, "he went on to manage opera houses, act in the theater, and establish a magazine for window dressers" but the success of The Wizard of Oz "kept him writing Oz books for the rest of his life: and even beyond his life, for after he died in 1919 others were commissioned to write more books about the Wizard" (introduction, Maurice Hungiville, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was , Gardner and Nye, eds., East Lansing, 1984). Along with his writing, Baum dabbled in related creative enterprises, such as a never realized Oz amusement park, on Pedloe Island off the coast of California, which he had purchased for this purpose; and a film company, founded in 1914, which produced the first two Oz film versions. (The 1939 landmark film adaptation starring Judy Garland was actually the third cinematic portrayal of Oz.) Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod , pp. 111-113; Hanff & Greene (1988) I.1; Morgan/ Early Children's Books 214.
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