![]() ![]() This accelerates the process by allowing you to immediately skip over material that isn't necessary to confirm a printing state. Along the way, both essential (to identification) and non-essential information appears, with the essential in bold typeface. If the endpapers don't match, you skip the remaining components and move to a description of the next printing, start with the cover again, and so on, until you reach your destination, where everything matches. If the cover matches what you have, you move to the endpapers. With book in hand, you work your way down. After giving a detailed description of the book in question, the components are listed followed by their variants in the following order (which more or less replicates the order in which you would encounter them, the exception being the dust jacket, which is placed in the final position because one is rarely encountered): cover, endpapers, text, plates and dust jacket. The approach includes using a format called top-down classification. In their Guide, they clarify and simplify the identification process to an extent I've never encountered in a bookselling reference. Speaking of complexities, this brings me back to Bienvenue and Schmidt. ![]() It broadens and extends the hunt - and the hunt, after all, is what it's all about. ![]() Such complexities can and often are maddening to booksellers, but often this is precisely what appeals to collectors. Those of you who have had some experience with early Oz books already know that, thanks to their publishing history, the complexities are considerable. Schmidt's The Book Collector’s Guide to L. I recently had the pleasure to examine a new collector's guide that, I must say, surely sets a standard for this kind of reference - Paul R. “This book about Baum and Oz is fantastic.Īs a citizen of Oz I heartily recommend it. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Frank Baum and Oz is an engaging, demystifying, and entertaining look at the legacy of America's premier children's author. Binding and manufacture are of the highest quality: art-book grade coated paper, linen-covered boards and round-backed spine stamped in gilt, reinforced sewing for extra strength, full-color French-fold dust jacket on laminated stock.įar from a dry, academic list, The Book Collector's Guide to L. The Guide includes over 420 photographs, illustrations, and diagrams, including nearly 350 photographs in full color. Some of these books are known by only a very few surviving copies.Īll major printings are characterized by changes in color plate locations, typography, advertisements, and other tell-tale points, not just first editions many variants are described for the first time anywhere. As a result, full-color photographs are provided for the covers of every major variant, as well as many of the rare original dust jackets. The authors have been granted unlimited access to some of the finest private and institutional collections in the United States. Complicated technical points are simplified with easy-to-understand diagrams. Starting with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), the Guide shows in simple steps how to prioritize the astounding number of editions, printings, states, and variants for each title, with special emphasis on ease of use. Historical photographs, rare artifacts, and original artwork are reproduced to help place the books in the context of their times. The Oz books of his five official successors are included as well, plus other important related volumes, covering over 150 titles in toto!Įssays introduce each book, discussing its history and including such supporting information as excerpts from Baum's letters, contemporary critical reviews, and original advertising and related ephemera. This definitive identification guide examines all of Baum s published book-length works (Oz, non-Oz, and pseudonymous) with unprecedented simplicity and clarity. ![]() 2009 GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR BEST REFERENCE BOOK presented by the Independent Publisher Book Awards (the 13th Annual 'IPPYs')Ģ010 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SILVER AWARD WINNER for Best Reference Book presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)Ģ010 HONOR WINNER for Best Reference Book presented by THE ERIC HOFFER AWARD for Excellence in Independent Publishing ![]()
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