The Land of Oz, 1904 edition facsimile, ~1974, L. Frank Baum
This is from a set of paperback reproductions of the original Oz books that Rand McNally put out in the 70s. The reproduction quality is very good; better, I would say, than a lot of contemporary facsimile editions of older materials. The black line artwork is crisp and as detailed as illustration in the original editions were.
Here’s the back-cover:
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I’ve got most of these, too…I loved/love the Oz books. In those days the holy grail was finding the Ruth Plumly Thompson and later books.
I have always wondered: why was a travel/map publisher putting out the Oz books? And the hardcovers of the same period were coming out from “Reilly & Lee,” which seemed to exist only to publish Oz hardcovers. Weird, weird days of publishing.
Nice — I’ve actually got this in hardcover — I never knew they put this out in paper.
For some reason, I always assumed these were much older than the ’70s — I couldn’t find a printing date on mine, but it had lists of a bunch of other Oz books in the back, in a much more modern typeface than the rest of the book.