Handy Mandy In Oz

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Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) Year: 1937 Publisher: The Reilly Lee Co Place: Chicago Description: 246 pages with illustrations by John R Neill. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to spine and pictorial plate to cover in original pictorial jacket. Pictorial black and white end papers and pastedowns. (Bienvenue p.119. Hanff/Greene p.102) First edition. Handy Mandy in Oz is the thirty-first book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the seventeenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Meet Handy Mandy, a girl with seven hands-- each with its own special abilities! Accidentally sent to Oz (thanks to an exploding mountain spring) Mandy helps Nox the Royal Ox rescue King Kerry from his ruthless captors! Condition: Former owner's name to front end paper. Jacked with edge wear and chipped, stained, closed tear across upper part of spine, front hinge rubbed with small chips else very good in a good jacket.

• Binding: Hardcover

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