Merry Go Round In Oz

by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren McGraw
Illustrated by DICK MARTIN

This is a PRISTINE copy in a PRISTINE dust jacket published by Books of Wonder in 1989. It is a FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of this edition. The Reilly & Lee edition of Merry Go Round in Oz was published in 1963 and constitutes the last (the 40th book) Oz book in the classical Oz canon of wizardology.

What makes this excellent Oz book (and it is an excellent story, on par---or in some cases much better, with any of the previous 39 Oz books---) is that the original illustator, Dick Martin, produced a new wraparound jacket design just for this particular edition. Martin's interior illustrations for the 1989 book are the same as in the 1963 edition.The fact that he had a direct hand in the production of this printing, is unique among the Oz books for an illustrator of a previous first edition Oz book. In my estimation, as an artist, the jacket design is better than the 1963 edition.

The book cloth on the book offered here is dark emerald green (it was a lighter on the subsequent editions). The spine is stamped in gold. This book also retains the original Dick Martin yellow endpaper design as in the first 1963 edition.

Note: The 1963 edition of Merry Go Round in jacket has always been rather scarce (in fact, it even carried some "mystique" with it) and pricey for about the last 20 years or so in our experience.

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Just a superb copy, from my own collection and kept in the best of care these years. I never read this copy.