The Giant Horse of Oz

Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) inscribed by Robert A Baum

Year: 1928

Publisher: The Reilly & Lee Co

Place: Chicago

Description:

283 pages with illustrations by John Neill. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial panel affixed to front board. Inscribed by Robert Baum. (Hanff and Greene, pg. 94-95) First edition.

The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) is the twenty-second book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the eighth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.

The tiny kingdom of the Ozure Isles, perched on five islands in Lake Orizon, surrounded by high mountains in a remote region of Munchkin Land, has little contact with the outside world—of Oz. The evil witch Mombi has turned her malice in the Ozure direction. After kidnapping Queen Orin, Mombi has left a fire-breathing lake monster named Quiberon in Lake Orizon to keep the natives prisoner. Even after Mombi was vanquished, Quiberon remains.

Robert A. Baum Jr. (1942 - ) is a great-grandson of L. Frank Baum through his son Robert Stanton Baum and grandson Robert Alison Baum. He often attends events held by The International Wizard of Oz Club and has appeared in various documentaries along with a cameo in The Dreamer of Oz.

Condition:

Robert Baum's inscription to title. Ownership page erased, edge wear with gently bumped corners, some rubbing to the front pictorial plate, front pastedown and back end paper illustration partially hand colored and illustration on pages 18, 36, 43, 77, 152 and 270 else good to very good.