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The Wizard of Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1956]. 239 pp. 8vo (235 x 172 mm). Title in red and black. Illustrated in two colors by Dale Ulrey. Afterword by Edward Wagenknecht. Publisher’s pictorial brick red cloth, front endpaper of the Map of Oz in color and blank rear endpaper. Condition : slight rubbing to jacket folds, review copy band darkened at spine. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition thus with dust jacket and the rare ‘review copy’ band across the cover . [With:] Another copy [1960]. Third printing of 32-page signatures (except the fifth signature of 14 pages) with text illustrations in blue, yellow, green, and red. Publisher’s gray-blue cloth stamped only on spine in black, blank endpapers. Dust jacket designed by Dick Martin. Condition : front joint starting, jacket with minor thumbsoiling, flap folds slightly rubbed, price clipped. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. [And:] Color proof of the Map of Oz used as front endpaper of the first Reilly & Lee edition of The Wizard of Oz , 1956. (355 x 550 mm). Condition : folded in middle as usual, edges slightly toned, small unobtrusive pinhole on upper map. Based on the endpaper design of Who’s Who in Oz (1954), this map was dropped from all subsequent editions. [And:] BAUM, L[yman] Frank . The Tin Woodman of Oz . Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1955]. 263 pp. 8vo (240 x 180 mm). Illustrated by Dale Ulrey. Publisher’s pictorial blue-gray cloth, blank endpapers. Condition : light spotting to endpapers; jacket with slight foxing to verso, and one small closed tear at front of lower spine panel. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition thus in dust jacket . [And:] Reilly & Lee publisher’s catalogue for March 1956, promoting the newly re-illustrated The Tin Woodman of Oz (1955). 24 pp. Small 4to (230 x 155 mm). Publisher’s decorated self-wrappers. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. To boost sagging sales, Reilly & Lee tried to update the Oz Books with new pictures by Dale UIrey, beginning with The Tin Woodman of Oz . Ulrey had drawn the famous story strip Mary Worth in the 1940s as well as pictures for Baum’s story Jaglon and the Tiger Fairies as revised in 1953. The firm followed The Tin Woodman of Oz with their first and newly re-illustrated The Wizard of Oz . These editions were not successful. Edward Wagenknecht, who wrote the first critical study of the Oz Books Utopia Americana (1928), provided not only the afterword to this edition of The Wizard of Oz but also the copy on the front jacket flap.