[xii]. 242, [1] + [1] ad pp. Tipped-in color frontispiece and numerous full page and smaller illustrations by Eric Shanower. Blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust jackets. One of an edition 350 signed copies of a total printing of 395, this being copy number 129. First Edition.

The first printing of this Oz story, written in 1945 and surviving only in manuscript unitl 1995. Illustrated by award winning cartoonist Eric Shanower.