The Famous Oz Books

Since 1900, when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of America THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other exciting characters who inhabit the land of Oz, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the imagination of millions of young readers.

These are stories which are genuine fantasy—creative, funny, tender, exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd creatures, each of the 40 volumes which now comprise the series, has been eagerly sought out by generation after generation until today they are known to all except the very young or those who were never young at all.

When, in a recent survey, The New York Times polled a group of teen agers on the books they liked best when they were young, the Oz books topped the list.

THE FAMOUS OZ BOOKS

By L. Frank Baum:

THE WIZARD OF OZ

THE LAND OF OZ

OZMA OF OZ

DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ

THE ROAD TO OZ

THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ

THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ

TIK-TOK OF OZ

THE SCARECROW OF OZ

RINKITINK IN OZ

THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ

THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ

THE MAGIC OF OZ

GLINDA OF OZ

By Ruth Plumly Thompson:

THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ

KABUMPO IN OZ

THE COWARDLY LION OF OZ

GRAMPA IN OZ

THE LOST KING OF OZ

THE HUNGRY TIGER OF OZ

THE GNOME KING OF OZ

THE GIANT HORSE OF OZ

JACK PUMPKINHEAD OF OZ

THE YELLOW KNIGHT OF OZ

PIRATES IN OZ

THE PURPLE PRINCE OF OZ

OJO IN OZ

SPEEDY IN OZ

THE WISHING HORSE OF OZ

CAPTAIN SALT IN OZ

HANDY MANDY IN OZ

THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ

OZOPLANING WITH THE WIZARD OF OZ

By John R. Neill:

THE WONDER CITY OF OZ

SCALAWAGONS OF OZ

LUCKY BUCKY IN OZ

By Jack Snow:

THE MAGICAL MIMICS IN OZ

THE SHAGGY MAN OF OZ

By Rachel R. Cosgrove:

THE HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ

By Eloise Jarvis McGraw & Lauren McGraw Wagner:

MERRY GO ROUND IN OZ

Chicago THE REILLY & LEE CO. Publishers

THE MAGIC OF OZ

A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap’n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz

BY L. FRANK BAUM “Royal Historian of Oz”

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN R. NEILL

The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago

Copyright 1919 By L Frank Baum All Rights Reserved MADE IN U.S.A.

I Dedicate this Book to the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection. L. F. B.

TO MY READERS

Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our “great outside world,” we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of The Land of Oz.

However, “The Magic of Oz” is really more strange and unusual than anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy Desert which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past exciting years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.

A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good letters sent me—unless stamps were enclosed—but from now on I hope to be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my readers favor me.

Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the Oz Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write them, I am Yours affectionately, L. FRANK BAUM, “Royal Historian of Oz.”