![]() Printing is after the first edition in 1914 by Reilly & Britton. Both hinges secure: rear hinge area has thin split but web beneath is holding well. Black-&-white images remain bright without foxing. Pages are uniformly and lightly age-toned and quite clean without marks or scribbles though with about half a dozen little finger-like smudges in margins. Cloth is firm though covers have light-to-moderate rubbing with one tiny puncture above the word "OZ." Spine is faded to tan. He wrote a total of 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919) was a bestselling American author famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok-sometimes described as a "proto-type robot"-but is primarily about the Shaggy Man's efforts to rescue his brother and his conflict with the Nome King. Frank Baum, first published on June 19, 1914. Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth Land of Oz book by L. Neill with many B&W line-drawings: pictorial preliminaries & half title, full-page frontispiece, chapter headings & tailpieces several full-page B&W plates (often 1 or 2 for each of the 24 chapters & double-spread pp.56-7), vignettes, 13-271, pages. ![]() Quarto (9 1/4" x 7" x 1 3/8"), publisher's green cloth with black lettering on spine & full-color pictorial pastedown of Betsy Bobbin astride a mule while hugging Tik-Tok around the neck illustrated by John R. ![]()
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