Description
Hanff, Peter E., Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900, with Riley, Michael O., A Bookbinder’s Analysis of the First Edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, two volumes in slipcase. A publication of The Book Club of California [printed by Peter R. Koch], 2011. One of an edition of 300, folio size, with an original leaf of a first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz tipped in (this copy with page 169, where Dorothy whistles for the field mice).
From prospectus: “The chief aim of Peter Hanff’s study and analysis of ‘America’s most famous fantasy’ is to explore some of the particular facts and circumstances that helped establish Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ as an American classic, despite formidable obstacles to success….The companion volume by Michael Riley is a scholarly and readable study of the production of the first edition of this children’s classic.”
Deluxe set in fine condition, with original slipcase.
