(Also reprinted by various publishers under the names The New Wizard of Oz and The Wizard of Oz with occasional minor changes in the text. The ruler of Oz, the great Wizard, who resides in an Emerald City, may be the only one powerful enough to help her. But all Dorothy really wants to know is how she can return home. Upon her arrival, she is hailed as a sorceress, liberates a living Scarecrow, meets a man made entirely of tin, and a Cowardly Lion. Frank BaumĪ little farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, get swept away into the Land of Oz by a Kansas cyclone. 2.4 Additional books by the earlier writers.2.3 Other books officially recognized as following the Oz canon by L.2.2 Subsequent books published by the International Wizard of Oz Club.2.1 Subsequent books by other writers published by Reilly & Lee.1.1 Story compilations and other works by Baum.“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz List of Frequently Asked Questions.” Wizard of Oz. (24 June 2008). Recently professionally cleaned, flattened and deacidified, and vertical center fold reinforced verso.
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His fourteenth Oz book was published posthumously in 1920, but the series continued with several more books by other authors after Baum’s death.Ĭondition: Generally very good with the usual light toning, wear, handling. Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author best known for his beloved Wizard of Oz series of books, beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). On later maps, including the Map of the Marvelous Land of Oz offered here, as well as the 1932 version, the compass rose is reversed back to normal, apparently inconsistent with the eastern placement of Winkie Country. This discrepancy was at first resolved by altering the compass rose with east on the left. For example, some speculate that Baum’s original map was a glass slide created for a traveling lantern show that followed the convention of placing west to the left, but that when this map was copied for the book, it was viewed from the wrong side of the glass side, and thus reversed. There are various theories to explain this. The first published map of Oz was printed in the endpapers of Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) and contains a cartographic curiosity: Winkie Country, where the Wicked Witch of the West lives, is in the east, as it is on this map. Numerous other whimsically-named geographical features and characters pertain only to the books, such as the land of Oogaboo in the upper right corner and locations such as Flutterbudget and the College of Prof. The Wicked Witch of the West’s domain is noted in Winkie Country, and the Palace of Glinda the Good is in Quadling Country, near the cartouche lower center. Although the map shows Oz more broadly than the movie, it has a marker in Munchkin Country “where Dorothy’s house fell” and shows the “Road of Yellow Brick” leading in a straight line to the Emerald City, a green region in the center. This map predates The Wizard of Oz movie starring Judy Garland, which was made in 1939, and is meant to accompany the books. According to Baum’s conception, Oz is divided into four countries surrounded by desert: Munchkin Country, Winkie Country, Quadling Country and Gillikin Country.