The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

By Lyman Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/The Marvelous Land of Ozbrings together in one treasury-sized volume the first two novels of L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz series for younger readers. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to the magical land of Oz, where they team up with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion to seek the help of the Wizard of Oz himself. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Tip, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Saw-Horse, and the Woggle-Bug work together to help to save the Scarecrow’s besieged city. Both books are illustrated in full color with the classic art of W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill.
 
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/The Marvelous Land of Oz is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Aug 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781435169449

Lyman Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum was born in 1856 in Chittenango in the state of New York. Educated mostly at home due to ill health, he was encouraged by his wealthy father to pursue his early interests in journalism and playwriting. He started his first magazine aged fifteen, had his own theatre at twenty-four and worked for many newspapers and periodicals before turning to children's fiction with stories he had made up for his own four sons. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, was his third bestselling book in as many years, and launched the series of Oz titles. Baum had moved with his family to Hollywood following the huge success of the books and stage adaptations. His own Oz Film Manufacturing Company failed to capitalize on the stories, and the hugely popular movie The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, was not made until twenty years after Baum's death in 1939.