[Leica] 68 LUG Yearbook Submissions Thus Far--I need you to keep Them Coming!

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

In the Portland Oregon Powells rare book room by far the hottest items
appear to be the older editions of the OZ series. The First book by the way
published in the year 1900.
The ones I hold dear were from the 60's. They were printed fairly well. The
jackets are simple and the illustrations by John R. Neill are printed well.
I have little interest in the earlier more valuable ones I seem to be more
interested in my own personal childhood nostalgia which took place in the
60's.
I found many of the oz books to not read like watered down sequels but I
found them as a young teen to be as rewarding if not more so than the
original Wizard.

But when you're in the Emerald city you're supposed to wear your green
glasses.
And the Gillikins to the north the Quadlings to the south the Munchins to
the west and the Winkies to the east... The land I live in now. Tall
buildings.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/onthisAutumnday/


> From: Neal Friedenthal <neal at photoneal.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:23:51 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 68 LUG Yearbook Submissions Thus Far--I need you to 
> eep
> Them Coming!
> 
> The backyard idea came from the writers at MGM. In the book when she goes 
> to
> Oz its real.  She does not hit her head and dream the whole thing in color
> only to come back to her black and white life in Kansas when she wakes up.
> She ends up moving there. Also in the book she's 11.
> There were several books afterwards most of which my Dad read after dinner
> at the table during desert in the 60's.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books
> 
> In the book
> Dorothy is an orphan.
> The Munchkins were not midgets or dwarfs, just smaller than regular adults.
> In other words actors.
> 
> And more importantly:
> The Wicked Witch of the East had Silver Shoes, not Ruby Slippers.
> 
> I just noticed yesterday at At Barnes and Noble the book is put in in the
> cheap Barnes and noble published classes right next to Jane Austen and the
> Count of Monte Cristo.
> 
> -- 
> Mark R.
> 
> Mark,
> 
> My mother read the OZ book to my brother and me when we were growing up, I
> have the collection unfortunately not first editions
>   and not in very good condition. However it does contain all 14 of the L.
> Frank Baum editions as well as several written after is
>   passing.  Interestingly enough the movie "Return to OZ" which the critics
> hated is closer to the original books that the 1939 film.
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
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