BAUM, L. FRANK The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Color plates and text illustrations by W. W. Denslow. 4to, original pictorial cloth, minor light

soiling; hinges starting. Chicago, 1900 FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE TEXT AND PLATES, binding variant B, with publisher's imprint at the foot of the spine in red. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BAUM on the front free endpaper, "When in this book you take a look/ My little sweetheart Beth, /Just think I writ the whole of it/ And yet am yours til death --L. Frank Baum./ Miss Elizabeth Hubbard of Syracuse." Inscribed Oz books are rare. ERRATTA LOT 17: with rubber -stamped copy right notice on title verso and first state plates.