[Children's & Illustrated] Baum, L. Frank The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Chicago and New York: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, second state (meeting five of six second state points, including ads on p. [2] not enclosed in a single-rule box; corrected text; imperfect type in last lines of pp. 100 and 186; second state of plates facing pp. 34 and 92; colophon printed in 13 lines without a double-ruled box but without the press-printed copyright notice on verso of title-page as called for in Hanff & Greene). 8vo. 259, (3) pp. Illustrated with tipped-in color title-page, 23 tipped-in color plates, and numerous in-text illustrations in various color shadings, by W.W. Denslow. Original third state green pictorial cloth (Hanff & Greene's variant C), with publisher's imprint at foot of spine stamped in red in serifed type, boards stamped in green and red, boards soiled, spine darkened, spine ends chipped and frayed; all edges trimmed; pictorial grey-tone front paste-down and pictorial red and black pictorial rear past-down; title-page loose; contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpaper and on title-page; scattered soiling in margins; gutter lightly worn at p. 80. Hanff & Greene I.2, binding variant C