The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Baum, L. Frank

ISBN 10: 0520058224 / ISBN 13: 9780520058224

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Moser, Barry

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas

Review:

For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie.