This is a very CLEAN pre-WW2 edition (1935-1942) of Tik-Tok of OZ by L. Frank Baum. Published by Reilly & Lee, Chicago Illinois. Orange cloth-bound cover with beautiful cover art pasted on. Very slight spine wear at top and bottom only, and two front corners have a minor bend to them (see pictures.) All pages intact and near white off-white. My father and grandfather's name written in pencil on the "This Book Belongs to" page, as well as inside cover.
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Decorated & black-ink stamped cloth.
Condition: Very Good Plus.
John R. Neill (illustrator).
Later Printing of 1914 First Edition (estimated at 1935-`942 per the Bibliographia OZiana publication guide.)
Quarto (9 1/4" x 7" x 1 3/8"), publisher's ORANGE cloth with black lettering on spine & full-color pictorial pastedown of Betsy Bobbin astride a mule while hugging Tik-Tok around the neck; illustrated by John R. Neill with many B&W line-drawings: pictorial preliminaries & half title, full-page frontispiece, chapter headings & tailpieces; several full-page B&W plates (often 1 or 2 for each of the 24 chapters & double-spread pp.56-7), vignettes; [i-xii], 13-271, [272] pages.
Weight: 1 lb. 6.5 oz.
About the OZ Books:
Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book by L. Frank Baum, first published on June 19, 1914. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok--sometimes described as a "proto-type robot"--but is primarily about the Shaggy Man's efforts to rescue his brother and his conflict with the Nome King. L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) was a bestselling American author famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
Cloth is firm though covers have light-to-moderate rubbing with one tiny puncture above the word "OZ." Pages are uniformly and lightly age-toned and quite clean without marks or scribbles though with about half a dozen little finger-like smudges in margins. Black-&-white images remain bright without foxing. No dust jacket. Both hinges are very secure: web beneath is holding well.
No publisher's ads. Printing is after the first edition in 1914 by Reilly & Lee. Hanff, Greene, et al, Bibliographia OZiana, revised & expanded, pp.66-68; where it is noted that "around 1935, the color plates were discontinued." Previous owner's name on free front endpaper; ergo, we estimate this copy's date of publication as being after 1935.