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Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly
Title: The Hungry Tiger of Oz
Place: Chicago
Publisher: Reilly & Lee
Date: [1926]
Item # : 164191
Sale Number   317
Lot Number   388
Sale Name    
Fine Children's Books
Sale Date   09/15/2005
Price realized   $ 287
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Description:
261, [3] pp. + [2] ad leaves. Illustrated with 12 color plates & numerous black & white drawings by John R. Neill. 9x6½, dark green cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers. First Edition, First State.
Hanff & Greene XX, Plate 75 - First state with plates coated on printed side only; hyphen on the last line of p.21 and the word "two" (p.252, last line) in perfect type, indicating this to be one of the earliest copies of the first printing.
Condition:
Mild rubbing to spine ends, corners and cover label, front hinge weak; about near fine.
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