The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

MOSER, Barry, illustrator; PENNYROYAL PRESS; BAUM, L. Frank

Edité par West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985

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Barry Moser illustrates The Wizard of OZ Limited to Three Hundred and Fifty Copies [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. [PENNYROYAL PRESS]. BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Illustrated by Barry Moser. With an Appreciation by Justin G. Schiller. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Limited to 350 numbered copies (this copy being No. 153), signed by Barry Moser. Large quarto (12 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; 327 x 302 mm.). [6, blank], [5], [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], [3], [1, blank], [1-7], 8-268, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank], [8, blank] pp. With sixty-two wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in five colors by Harold P. McGrath in Van Dijck on Mohawk Letterpress. The hand composition was done at the press by P. Chase Twitchell. Calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge of Hayward, California. Bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery in Barcham Green Dewint paper over boards. Front cover embossed and lettered in gilt, back cover embossed and lettered in blind. Beige cloth endpapers. A mint copy. Housed in a beige cloth clamshell case. A very fine copy. Laid in is a copy of the pamphlet "Forty-Seven Days to Oz, A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Barry Moser, Published by Pennyroyal Press, 1985." First edition. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm.). 32 pp. "The following account of the process of inventing the sixty-two images for L. Frank Baum s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was taken directly from the day book which I keep to chronicle my work" (Author s Note). "Few texts lend themselves to contemporary parody as well as does the Wizard of Oz. The first time I tried my hand at political parody was in Through the Looking-Glass where I cast Richard M. Nixon as Humpty Dumpty. The Wizard of Oz gave me the stage for throwing humorous, but none-the-less serious darts at the Reagan Administration [including depicting the Wicked Witch as Nancy Reagan], corporate figureheads, and the so-called Moral Majority, who now, it seems, want to be called Freedom Federation" (Dwyer, Pennyroyal). Dwyer, Pennyroyal, 43.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Éditeur: West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • American Literature
  • Books into Film
  • Illustrated Books
  • Fine Printing
  • Limited Editions