Books Continuing The L. Frank Baum Oz Stories, One By John Neill, Who Illustrates Most of Them

W.W. Denslow, The Scarecrow and Tin-Man of Oz (Hungry Tiger Press, 2006), 7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches tall glossy color hardcove, no dust jacket (as issued), 137 pp. plus publisher's ads. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. - Come adventuring with the Scarecrow and Tin-Man as they cheer up little Dorothy, visit Santa Claus, and come to America for an incredible journey to New York City, New Orleans, Bermuda, and the Wild West. This action-packed volume includes all twelve of W. W. Denslow’s 1904-1905 newspaper stories plus the 1904 SCARECROW AND TIN-MAN picture book! W. W. Denslow was the original illustrator of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. In this little-known series of Oz adventures you’ll be magically transported back to 1904. All of Denslow’s artwork for the stories has been pain-stakingly restored from the rare newspaper printings and thus provide crisp black-and-white line art for almost every spread of this beautiful Oz-book style volume. First ever book Collection of these hundred-year-old Oz tales. ISBN 1929527128.

Jack Snow, Who's who in Oz (Peter Bedrick Books, 1988), 7 x 9 1/4 inches tall burgundy cloth hardcover in publisher's un clipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, , map endpapers, copiously illustrated with 490 of the celebrated Oz illustrations by John R. Neill, Frank Kramer and 'Dirk,' x, 277 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Two-inch shadow to front pastedown where a label was removed. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy in a somewhat soiled, chipped and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve.  - This whimsical who's who offers a guided tour through the fairyland created by L. Frank Baum. 'Who's Who in Oz' contains descriptions of over six hundred and thirty Oz characters with hints on the parts they play in the thirty-nine Oz books published between 1900 and 1951. ... Also included are biographical sketches of all nine authors and illustrators of the Oz books. In addition, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is decorated with almost five hundred of the original Oz illustrations.

Ruth Plumly Thompson, Ozoplaning with The Wizard of Oz (The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1990), 6 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches tall green cloth hardc over in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt design and lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated endpapers, copiously illustrated by John  R. Neill, 290 pp.  Two-inch shadow to front pastedown where a label was removed. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy in a rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which has a bit of sun-fading to spine but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. - The Wizard, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow go exploring in the Wizard's new invention, the Ozoplane.

John R. Neill, The Scalawagons of Oz (Books of Wonder, 1991), 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches tall yellow buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, silver lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, copiously illustrated by John  R. Neill, 309 pp. Two-inch shadow to front pastedown where a label was removed. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy in a slightly stained (especially rear cover) and edgeworn dust jacket which has a half-inch edge tear to the top edge of the rear jacket and a bit of sun-fading to spine but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. - When the strange and mysterious Bell Snickle "snickles" around the scalawagons of Oz, there is big trouble in the Emerald City.

John R. Neill, The Runaway in Oz (Books of Wonder , 1995), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall dark blue cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, bold giolt design and lettering to front cover and spine, blue illustrated endpapers, copiously illustrated with Eric Shanower's wonderful drawings, [10], 242 pp. plus publisher's ads. Very slight staining to top page edges. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a dust jacket with some slight staining and sun-fading to spine, but which is also nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. - Running away from Oz, Scraps, the patchwork girl, encounters the Wogglebug's castle in the air, Fanny the Weather Witch, and Popla, a power plant.