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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz numbered

L. Frank Baum

Publication year

Limitation

Lyra's Classics

2024

250

Author signature

Artist

Introduction

No

Gregory Manchess

None

List Price

Median Market Value

Recorded Sales

£495

£600

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz numbered
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz numbered

5.a The "Numbered" edition: Bradel bound in black and green goatskin leather. Hand marbled endpapers: limitation 250

5.b The "Lettered" edition: Full inlaid leather design binding, using inlays of yellow and multiple green leathers. Hand marbled endpapers, solander box, signed by author and artist: limitation 26


Printed letterpress on 148gsm Mohawk Superfine Eggshell by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Printed in black and green throughout on a Heidelberg cylinder press using photopolymer plates.


This edition is newly illustrated by award-winning oil painter Gregory Manchess. There are 22 paintings, comprising 21 full-page and one half-page colour images. This includes 4 double page spreads hand tipped onto tabs. All images are printed offset litho by Hurtwood and sewn into the structure of the binding.


The numbered edition is bound as a bradel binding, with black goatskin leather spine. The front and back boards are covered with mid-green goatskin leather and foil blocked in gold and black. The title is foil blocked to the spine in gold and green.

Endpapers are mottled green Napura Khepera paper and are foil blocked with a silhouette of Dorothy and Toto.


Silk ribbon marker. Sculpted leather head-caps. Top edge gilded gold.


The book comes in a straight edged slipcase, capped with charcoal Suedel and wrapped with a handmade marbled paper by Freya Scott of Paperwilds. A black paper label with gold foil blocking is inset to the front of the slipcase. The inside of the slipcase is lined with charcoal Suedel.



The other editions: Lettered

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