Ozma of Oz : a record of her adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, besides other good people too numerous to mention faithfully recorded herein

Date:

[1907]

Author:

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919, author.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH B347 O9 1907 LOCAL

Publisher:

Reilly & Lee

Abstract:

Uncle Henry has been ordered by his doctor to take a vacation from his Kansas farm to Australia. He and his niece Dorothy Gale are aboard a steamship traveling there when they are caught in a fierce storm and separated. Dorothy is blown overboard along with a yellow hen called Billina from her uncle's farm that was on the ship. They arrive in the country of Ev where they eventually join Princess Ozma in her effort to rescue the royal family of that land.

Physical Description:

270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

[The Famous Oz books / L. Frank Baum]

Notes:

Contains head-pieces and tail-pieces. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Reilly & Lee, c 1907 [1st issued in 1907 by Reilly & Britton, which became Reilly & Lee in 1920]; this edition does not have any color illustrations, except for the front cover; two copies: 1) main title on label is printed in purple 2) BACKLOG gift ml main title on label is printed half in purple and half in blue and dark blue is substituted for light blue in one design motif; spine titles and vignette printed in black on (1) dark green or (2) blue cloth, full-size color illustrated label pasted on front cover

Subjects:

Oz (Imaginary place) Juvenile fiction, Princess Ozma (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction, Oz (Imaginary place), and Princess Ozma (Fictitious character)

Genres/Forms:

Novels, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction. lcgft, Fantasy fiction Juvenile, Fiction, Juvenile works, Novels. lcgft, and Fantasy fiction. gsafd

Names:

Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction and Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character)