Cyclone on the Prairies by Peter E. Hanff– BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA - 2011
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Cyclone on the Prairies, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900 by Peter E. Hanff– BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA LIMITED EDITION - 2011
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
One of 300 copies.
Letterpress in two volumes housed in a slipcase.
A$500
VOLUME ONE:
“Cyclone on the Prairies”.
141 pages of which 76 are full-colour plates.
Most illustrations by W.W. Denslow.
Numerous integrated line drawings.
Includes an original leaf from the first printing in 1900 (in my copy, the opening page for Chapter XII)
Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.
Plain mid-brown endpapers.
Quarter bound in green cloth with orange paper spine label, orange paper covers printed in black with a picture.
Bound by John De Merritt, California.
30.9x23.4cm.
VOLUME TWO:
“A Bookbinder’s Analysis of the First Edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
Written by Michael O. Riley.
46 pages.
Colour frontispiece and integrated monochrome illustrations.
Line drawing endpiece.
Orange endpapers.
Bound in mid-brown card with picture printed in black and title in a light brown cartouche on front cover.
Softcover.
SLIPCASE:
Plain dark brown card.
Measures 31.7x23.8cm.
A rather unusual publication and an intimate look into the first edition of this famous children’ novel, the author L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
One of 300 copies.
Letterpress in two volumes housed in a slipcase.
A$500
VOLUME ONE:
“Cyclone on the Prairies”.
141 pages of which 76 are full-colour plates.
Most illustrations by W.W. Denslow.
Numerous integrated line drawings.
Includes an original leaf from the first printing in 1900 (in my copy, the opening page for Chapter XII)
Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.
Plain mid-brown endpapers.
Quarter bound in green cloth with orange paper spine label, orange paper covers printed in black with a picture.
Bound by John De Merritt, California.
30.9x23.4cm.
VOLUME TWO:
“A Bookbinder’s Analysis of the First Edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
Written by Michael O. Riley.
46 pages.
Colour frontispiece and integrated monochrome illustrations.
Line drawing endpiece.
Orange endpapers.
Bound in mid-brown card with picture printed in black and title in a light brown cartouche on front cover.
Softcover.
SLIPCASE:
Plain dark brown card.
Measures 31.7x23.8cm.
A rather unusual publication and an intimate look into the first edition of this famous children’ novel, the author L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
2rbmackeen
>1 wcarter: The illustrator is actually W.W. Denslow. L. Frank Baum is the author of Wizard of Oz. A very interesting book on bookmaking.
3wcarter
>2 rbmackeen:
Thanks, corrected.
Thanks, corrected.
4astropi
It's hard to underestimate the importance of the books (and movie) on popular culture and more. Here is a good article, "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2710826 it starts off
ON THE DESERTS OF NORTH AFRICA IN 1941 TWO TOUGH AUSTRALIAN BRIGADES went to battle singing,
Have you heard of the wonderful wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz,
And he is a wonderful wizard,
If ever a wizard there was.
It was a song they had brought with them from Australia and would soon spread to England. Forever afterward it reminded Winston Churchill of those "buoyant days."
It's a remarkable edition! Well worth finding, and well worth reading.
ON THE DESERTS OF NORTH AFRICA IN 1941 TWO TOUGH AUSTRALIAN BRIGADES went to battle singing,
Have you heard of the wonderful wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz,
And he is a wonderful wizard,
If ever a wizard there was.
It was a song they had brought with them from Australia and would soon spread to England. Forever afterward it reminded Winston Churchill of those "buoyant days."
It's a remarkable edition! Well worth finding, and well worth reading.
5wcarter
>4 astropi:
Australians are renown for shortening every name, and Oz is a naturaly contraction of Australia. We often refer to ourselves as coming from Oz, the land down under.
Australians are renown for shortening every name, and Oz is a naturaly contraction of Australia. We often refer to ourselves as coming from Oz, the land down under.
