The book came with a dust jacket depicting images of the front and back covers with a price tag of $1.50. When copies of Oz book published in 1900, the book contained 24 color plates in addition to in-text color illustration. However, an early notice by the Hill Company cites three printings of the book, of 10,15,and10 thousand copies (Baltimore Herald, Oct.21,1900), and it is quite possible that one or more additional press runs were completed before the publisher fails in March of 1902.
The autors base their 35,000-copy estimation on surviving records of Denslow's total royalties and dismiss the publisher's hyperbolic claims of nearly 90,000 copies printed by 1901.
In 2008 another reference book named "The Book Collector's Guide to L.Frank Baum & Oz" indicated that there were only 35,000 copies of Wonderful Wizard of Oz printed. In 2002, Kathrine Rogers published the book title "L.Frank Baum Creator of Oz".According to this reference material 37,672 copies were printed over 15 month period.ģ.Number of copies of The Wizard of Oz printed from The Book Collector's Guide to L.Frank Baum and Oz by Paul Bienvenue Total of 90,000 copies published by Hill.Ģ.Number of copies printed by Katharine M. Frank Baum Royal Historian of Oz.īelow is the information from this book about 90,000 copies printed before Geo. In 1961, Frank Joslyn Baum publish a book named "To please a child" a biography of L. One of the earliest copies is in the New York Public Library in the rare book section is a copy given by L.Frank Baum to his mother dated in June of 1900.īelow is the list of three different sources that point to the number of copies printed.ġ.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - number of copies printed by Frank Baum son Frank Joslyn Baum In May, Baum presented an unbound copy to his sister Mary Louis during a visit to Syracuse. It should be noted that there under two dozen copies printed in "A" binding. Those pre-publication copies are known as "A" Binding. Hill CO at the bottom of the spine in red color. It should be noted that pre-publication/advance copies become available in May of 1900 with the name of Geo. The first edition copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in Chicago in August of 1900 by Geo M.Hill Company. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book publication Since The Wonderful Wizard of Oz edition copies is the most cherished book by Oz collectors, I decided to publish the detailed analysis of this title.