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The Wizard of Oz vintage clothbound book signed to Jack Haley’s son by virtually entire cast

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia Start Price:40,000.00 USD Estimated At:40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD
The Wizard of Oz vintage clothbound book signed to Jack Haley’s son by virtually entire cast
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The Wizard of Oz vintage clothbound book signed to Jack Haley’s son by virtually entire cast and crew including Judy Garland and Toto. (MGM, 1939) A well read and much loved copy of the 5th edition, 2nd state early 1930’s clothbound printing of The Wizard of Oz, ex-libris Jack Haley Jr., with his bookplate inside front cover. His father Jack Haley, who so memorably portrayed the Tin Man in the film, brought this copy to the set and had the following sign it for his son, who was 5 years old at the time: cast members Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Toto (footprint, with trainer Jack Weatherwax signature); stand-ins Bobbie Koshay, Harry Masters, Frank Remsden, and Francine(?) O’Hanlon; and crew members producer Mervyn LeRoy, director Victor Fleming, Al Shenberg, Keith Weeks, Harold Rossen, Harry Edwards, Gavin Burns, Ray Ramsey, Allen Davey, A.W.Brown, Wm. Cannon, Jack Leonard, Pop Arnold, and 15 others. Front endpaper, which contains the primary signatures, also has detailed pencil drawings of the principal characters linking them to their signatures. All in all, a highly personal, remarkable, and most certainly unique artifact from what many film lovers consider to be the greatest film of all time. Front cover and several of the 8 color plates are wavy and lightly dampstained, and signed pages exhibit scattered foxing; all corners are bumped and abraded, a well-used copy, still Good to Very Good. Together with Jack Haley Jr.’s personal copy of “The Land of Oz”, being a 1930’s popular edition of the sequel to the above mentioned book. From the estate of Jack Haley, Jr. and never before offered for sale.