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4 stamps, pen and ink sketch, chocolate on cornflower yellow matting
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900 by Lyman Frank Baum, of Chittenango, New York. Baum, born in 1856, found at the age of forty that his real talent was in writing fantastic tales. In his works, "…for the time has come for a series of newer tales in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wondertales and gladly dispenses with all the disagreeable incident. " His first of fourteen full-length Oz novels was made into the wonderful movie staring Judy Garland that has endured for decades in the hearts and minds of generations of children. The illustrations of the first original book, marvels in themselves, are the work of William Wallace Denslow, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1856, whos colorful illustrations made him quite famous. Today we remember Dorothy and Toto, their Kansas home, Aunt Em, The Scarecrow, Tinman, Cowardly Lion, The Emerald City, the witches, the Wizard of Oz, and of course, we follow the Yellow Brick Road!
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Code: Wizard of Oz 1250
Price: $44.95
Shipping Weight: 4.00 pounds
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