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Frank Baum Signed ''Oz''

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Frank Baum Signed ''Oz''
''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: George Hill Company: 1900. First edition, presentation copy signed by the author. Baum inscribed on the author list leaf: '''Twas Mr Dooley dear Mr Dooley, / He said: 'I'll live and die in Waukazoo / Mosquitoes charm me/ They cannot harm me / For I am Mr. Dooley-ooley-oo! / August 17th / 1902 / L. Frank Baum.'' The book is in the second state, and in binding variant C. Included in the lot is a letter of provenance from the granddaughter of the original recipient Dorothy Lake. It explains that her grandmother was 11 years old in 1902 and went on a holiday every summer to Waukazoo on the shores of Lake Michigan. Baum was reportedly charmed by Miss Lake and by the coincidence of meeting a real Dorothy in the same resort area in which he wrote portions of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'' Original pictorial cloth stamped in red and green. Leaf with inscription is browned and a little chipped at edges and with a 2-inch closed tear through ''A'' of ''August.'' Plates and text leaves frayed with some extremity loss. Volume has been restored to an attractive, presentable condition. Presentation copies of Baum's masterpiece are very scarce on the market, and verse inscriptions particularly so.
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