Speedy in Oz

Author: Thompson, Ruth Plumly
298 pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by John R. Neill. 9x6½, red cloth, pictorial cover label; black & white pictorial endpapers; color pictorial jacket. First Edition, First State.
First state with Reilly & Lee imprint on spine in semi-script, "fancy" letters. All later printings were issued without color plates. The jacket is in first state, with 26 titles listed on front and rear panels, through Ojo in Oz (which preceded Speedy). Hanff & Greene, XXVIII, Plate 83. Provenance: Henry S. Blossom.
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher Name: The Reilly & Lee Co.
Date Published: [1934]

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Condition report

Jacket spine stained, rubbed and soiled, less soiling to front and rear panels, some edge wear and minor chipping; volume with number 27 inked on spine, foot a bit bumped, faint foxing to cover label; a bit of foxing/offset to endpapers and pages facing the plates, else very good or better in very good jacket.