The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger
London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1937. 24.5x19cm: 143pp. First Edition, First Printing of the Small Paper Issue, with 20 gorgeous color illustrations by the author, including the frontispiece. Original green cloth-covered boards, with black lettering on spine. Minor sunning to spine ends and along a small section of the bottom edge of the front board. Some faint foxing to contents and textblock edges, with offsetting to rear free endpaper. Boards slightly bowed. In the original, unrestored, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket faintly foxed and lightly soiled. Spine panel a tad darkened, though lettering remains bright. Small chip at head of spine with short closed tear along top edge of rear panel. Better than Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A nicely preserved copy of this scarce title, especially so in the dust jacket. This edition not in Cotsen.
In The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger, Langley blends fairytale adventure, satire, and playful language into a witty, whimsical children’s classic following the exploits of Abu Ali, the son of Emperor Aladdin. It was largely due to the success of this book that Langley was selected as one of the screenwriters to adapt L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Cotsen 10198, for the U.S Edition.
Price: $1,150.00
Item #10590