Books published by publisher Reilly and Lee

First Edition First Printing with the hyphen on the last line of page 21 and the word 'two' in perfect type on the last line of page 252. Color frontispiece present. The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago 1926. Good--/None dust jacket condition. ILLUSTRATED By JOHN R. NEILL. By RUTH PLUMY THOMPSON founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories. BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES. The following OZ titles (color plates) are also available for sale by us on this same site: 1) THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ 2) OZMA OF OZ 3) THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ 4) THE MAGIC OF OZ 5) GRAMPA IN OZ

It was midnight. The room in which Johnny Thompson sat was a place of odd noises and strange flashes of light. Here in the corner a tick-ticking was followed by a yellow light that curved upward, over, then down; upward, over and down again. A gong sounded from overhead. A shadowy form moved across the floor. Instantly came the clatter of a score of instruments sounding as one and a score of yellow lights curved up, over and down; up, over and down again. After that a voice said:

Published in 1909, THE ROAD TO OZ is the fifth book in Baum's series. In this particular book, Dorothy Gale of Kansas comes to the aid of 'The Shaggy Man'--a likeable hobo in ragged clothes--who asks her for directions. It is easier to show him than explain it to him, but when Dorothy leads him to the proper road she finds a multitude of roads she did not expect and with which she is unfamiliar. She continues with Toto and The Shaggy Man and soon meets two others who are equally lost: Button-Bright, a little boy who seems remarkably stupid, and Polychrome, the daughter of the Rainbow, who is accidentally stranded on earth. Together they visit the strange towns of Foxville and Donkinton and confront a truly nasty group of beings known as Scoodlers. Eventually they arrive in Oz just in time for Ozma's birthday celebration. ( amazon review)