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The Hidden Valley of Oz: Available Copies

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

1951 Reilly and Lee first edition. Condition of the book is Very Good Plus, with sound binding, complete and unmarked inside pages. Condition of the dust jacket is Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows moderate shelf wear and edge wear. That said it displays well in a new mylar cover. Note, the front panel of the dust jacket, and the front board panel, utilize the same graphics.

First edition of this midcentury addition to the Oz canon, based upon a manuscript that Cosgrove sent unsolicited to Oz publishers Reilly & Lee. 8.75'' x 6.5''. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. Illustrated by Dirk with black-and-white pictorial endpapers and in-text images. 313, [1] pages. Light rubbing to extremities, with faint stain to paste-on, else clean and bright.

First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Reilly & Lee, 1991. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Great copy of this charming children's title.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

1951, 1st edition. (Illustrated cloth) Very good plus. 313pp. Very light shelf wear, the cover illustration bright and undamaged. Front hinge tender/started, but not critically. Clean and bright within. Hanff / Greene p118. Illustrations by Dirk.

VG with some rubbing to cloth at edges. Nice and tight. Unmarked interior. DJ is bright with many chips and tears, unclipped at price but clip at bottom ede of flap

313 pages with illustrations by Dirk Gringhuis. Roya; octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with spine pictorially stamped in black and color pictorial paper label affixed to front. Pictorial endpapers; numerous black and white illustrations. First edition. The Hidden Valley of Oz (1951) is the thirty-ninth book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors. It was written by Rachel R.C. Payes and illustrated by Dirk Gringhuis. The book was followed twelve years later by Merry Go Round in Oz (1963). Jonathan Andrew Manley, nicknamed Jam, is a boy from Ohio, the son of a biologist. At the start of the story, he is building a "collapsible kite" from plans he found in a popular magazine. Rather than cutting the pieces of his wooden frame to match the plans, however, he scales up the kite to match the size of his wood, yielding an extra-large result. The size of the thing inspires him to try to fly on it; he attaches a shipping crate, and gathers up three of his father's experimental animals (two guinea pigs and a white laboratory rat). A strong gust of wind lifts kite, crate, and passengers into the sky; Jam is on his way to the Land of Oz. Condition: Endpapers lightly soiled, some smudges on text pages, closed tear at heal page 233/34 not affecting text, page ends foxed, inner hinges cracked. Jacket with a tape repair tear at hinge, edge wear with chips, two inch by half inch chip to front heal edge, spine ends with chips else good in an about very good jacket.

Octavo. 23 cm x 29 cm. Pictorial cover over blue cloth. 313pp. Black and white illustrations by Dirk. In color pictorial dust jacket repeating the same image as dust jacket. Rear flap of jacket lists the Oz titles through #38, "The Valley of Oz.". Price of $2.50 on front jacket flap. Previous owner has checked the titles that they had owned on rear jacket flap. There is a three inch tear to dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper. Ref: A Book Collector's Guide to L.Frank Baum. pg 137. Founded on and continuing the famous stories by L.Frank Baum.

Hidden Valley of Oz. Slight shelfwear, minor sunfading on spine. Minor staining along bottom of pages. Name and date of first owner on "This Book Belongs to" page. Hinges loose but entirely intact. Beautiful condition overall.

Very Good Hardcover with pictorial cover, black and white illustrations by Dirk hinges reinforced, no markings continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum

313p, octavo. Illustrated by Dirk. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket is sunned along spined, and rubbed near base where it looks like someone tried to erase a handwritten number 38 (the # of this book in the series). Creasing, nicks, and closed tears along edges. A few pencil check marks on rear inner flap. Book itself is tight and bright, with pictorial cover label. All later printings did not have a pictorial cover label, thus this is a First Edition. (Hanff & Greene XXXIX). Previous owner's name neatly penned on "this book belongs to" page. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked.

THE HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ, Reilly & Lee, 1951, first edition, just about fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper (matching the illustration on the front cover) save for some shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Illustrated by Dirk.

4to. 313 pp. Illustrated by Dirk. Blue cloth, paste down, very good. (11855).