RINKITINK IN OZ by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill (1916 First Edition Hardcover. no Dust Jacket)

Publisher: The Reilly & Britton Company of Boston, MA

With the help of three magic pearls, Prince Inga and Rinktink defeat King Gos of Regos, but lose the pearls in the process. Faced with this most recent setback, Rinkitink, Bilbil the goat, and Inga will need the help of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz if they have any hope of saving Pingaree. A story about people from the edge of the land of Oz. Book 10 in the Oz series.

Originally, Baum did not intend for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to have any sequels, but it achieved a greater popularity than any of the other fairylands he created.

Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) is one of the most celebrated children's authors of all time. He was also a playwright and journalist. Best remembered for the American classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, thirteen subsequent volumes in the original series, as well as a spin off-series of six early readers. A musical stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz opened in Chicago in 1902 (the first to use the shortened title "The Wizard of Oz"), then ran on Broadway, and toured the USA afterward. John Rea Neill (1877--1943) was a magazine and children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, including L. Frank Baum's, Ruth Plumly Thompson's, and three of his own. His pen-and-ink drawings have become identified almost exclusively with the Oz series. He did a great deal of magazine and newspaper illustration work which is not as well known today. Neill was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank Baum wrote, published in 1904.

The 1939 MGM adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of 20th-century cinema.

The book for sale was a beloved privately owned copy. Hardcover had been rebound with thick tape repairing original gutters over end-pages as well using cloth-backed tape to attach covers to text block. When we received the book, cloth and glue age required us to glue some loose text blocks and color plates together to form a usable whole text block as well as tape spine to front cover. All text is complete but only 9 color plates remain. Book is now readable without requiring special handling.

Original green cloth boards and a full color illustration pasted on front, this copy has no DJ. The cover illustration shows King Rinkitink with young Prince Inge riding the disgruntled talking goat, Bilbil. Cloth on cover-edges worn through to cardboard. End-papers are scarred from removal of plates & text groupings torn out due to rough handling. Interior is now connected and text is unmarked, although pages are brittle, creased, and stained with handling & age. Prior Owner's name penciled in name plate.

Copyright 1916. Title page does not say printed in 1916, but colophon might indicate this copy was printed then. The Reilly & Britton Company as publisher indicates 1st Edition, but print run is not identified. The title page lists Baum as author of eight titles published before 1916. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.