Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies

Author: Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)

Date: 1912

Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co

Place: Chicago

Description:

288 pages with frontispiece, color plates and numerous black and white drawings by John R Neill. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth will illustrated color plate mounted to front board. (Baughman 29o; Maund Bibliographia Baumiana) First edition, first state. 11,750 copies printed of the first edition.

The pictorial cover label edges are orange, publisher's advertisements on verso of half-title lists six Baum titles. This is a sequel to the Sea Fairies.

Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1912 by the Reilly & Britton Company. As the full title indicates, Sky Island is a sequel to Baum's The Sea Fairies of 1911. Both books were intended as parts of a projected long-running fantasy series to replace the Oz books. Given the relatively tepid reception of the first book in the series, however, Baum tried to attract young readers by including two characters from his Oz mythos in Sky Island—Button-Bright and Polychrome, originally introduced in The Road to Oz (1909).

Condition:

Covers worn, scratches to label with one inch diameter patch of the surface rubbed of effecting the Cap'n Bill, gouge and tear to spine strip affecting the title, some staining, wear to ends and corners, hinges cracked at end papers, occasional marginal staring to text leaves; one plate loose else a good copy.