Bobbs-Merrill existed in a bygone era of books. This company published L. Frank Baum, Ayn Rand and Irma S. Rombauer’s Joy of Cooking, but is largely forgotten now except by connoisseurs of the used book world.
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The Stones of Summer
You might want to reconsider the example of “The New Wizard of Oz” that is used to lead this article. The leather rebinding is not representative of the cloth-bound Bobbs-Merrill original in any way. Furthermore, the author’s “signature” is a poor forgery. As a long-time ABEbooks.com seller, I am concerned that promoting this defaced book shows ABE in a very bad light.
Paul Bienvenue
Author of “The Book Collector’s Guide to L. Frank Baum and Oz”;
Proprietor, March Hare Books, El Segundo CA