18. SNOW, Jack [John Frederick] (1907-1956). The Magical Mimics in Oz. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1946]. 243 pp. 8vo (235 x 175 mm). Illustrated by Frank Kramer. Publisher’s light gray cloth with printed pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. Condition: covers slightly soiled and corners rubbed, some internal soiling.
first edition in frayed and soiled dust jacket. After John R. Neill died in 1943, Reilly & Lee waited until the end of World War II to sign up Jack Snow as the fourth Royal Historian of Oz. This self-proclaimed Oz expert was gathering material for a biography of L. Frank Baum (that he never wrote) when he produced the first of two Oz Books with illustrator Kramer.
est. $700 – $1000
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