Condition Continued: There was a thin space at the juncture between the illustrated front inside cover and its facing illustrated end paper but  the paper was present and I was able to glue it back in place over the space it had lifted up from. So both junctures between the covers and their end papers look very good, and the covers are nicely, solidly bound. In the blank space below the 'This Book Belongs To' a Charles Hoye neatly penned his name and address in Bronxville, N.Y. There is no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. The interior the book is in pretty nice shape. You'll run into a small spot of soiling here and there, but it appears that Charles most often read with clean hands. I think only one of the spots touches the print. There is some fairly light amber toning on the title page due to its facing the semi-glossy paper of the frontispiece illustration. You'll  find an occasional small edge tear on a page. There is a hard to see one off the title page's bottom edge, another off the bottom edge of the Dedication Page and List of Chapters page, maybe ten more over the rest of the pages. None of these small edge tears are particularly conspicuous. I don't believe any come near the print. I saw one top corner with a teeny tiny loss. There isn't much by way of creasing, definitely nothing significant. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And, as I referenced earlier, just that one instance of writing. There are a lot of illustrations. They all appear to be in excellent condition.

The Reilly & Lee  Co., Chicago, 1915. Hardcover. Written by Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill. This is not the first edition, but I believe it is an early edition as it has the first edition's cover design, and because the last Oz title referenced on the title page is Tik-Tok Of Oz which was published in 1914. On my book, 1915 is the only date on the half-title page so I used that date as the year of publication. What makes clear that it is not the first edition is the fact that the illustrations are in black and white. The frontispiece, though, is in color, which I believe differentiates the book from some of the later printings.