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Kabumpo in Oz.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1922]. 299 pp. 8vo (235 x 175 mm). Illustrated by John R. Neill. 12 color plates, tipped in and bound in. Publisher’s blue cloth, pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. Condition : joints starting, covers slightly rubbed, slight offsetting from rear illustrations. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. first edition, first printing with the pictorial half-title page in its correct place and the picture of princess dorothy on p. 299; color plates coated on one side only and facing pp. 57, 72, 105, 120, 153, 168, 217, 232, 249, 264, and 288. Kabumpo the Elegant Elephant was one of Thompson’s personal favorite characters. He plays an imporant role also in The Purple Prince of Oz (1932) and The Silver Princess in Oz (1938).