

He states that he has replied to every letter he received, and that he has incorporated many of their suggestions” (Eyles, 47).

“Baum’s introductory remarks refer to ‘my loving tyrants,’ the children who demanded more stories of Oz. Octavo, original blue cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers.įirst edition, first state of the fourth Oz book- in which two of Baum’s best-loved characters, the fearless Dorothy and the Wizard (the “great and terrible” humbug), return to the Emerald City- with numerous in-text illustrations and 16 full-page color plates by John R. “WHY, IT’S OZ, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD, COME BACK AGAIN!”īAUM, L.
