King Kojo by Thompson, Ruth Plumly - 1938

Washington Square, Philadelphia * * * * * : David McKay , 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. Marge, Illustrated by. B00K: Near Fine/Fine/, 1938 . B00K: Near Fine/Almost Fine/, $595.17 KING KOJO * THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly Marge, Illustrated by. David McKay 1938 Washington Square, Philadelphia UnStated Edition Tall Wide H/c Light Sun Browning On A Red Cloth Spine With Title In Black Letters, Hard Cover B00K: Near Fine/Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 239 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper, Trace Browning From Aging, Spotting On Outside Edges That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, In Fine / Condition. Prior Owner`s Small Sticker Torn Of In The Front Of Book. This B00K Has Been Very Well Taken Care Of. D/j: None. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Remainder Or Other Marks. Description Applies To This B00K, Only, Which Will Be = Mailed In A Mailing Box =, To Your Destination, So It Will Arrive In The Condition… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1938. First edition in book form. Upper front corner slightly bumped, very minor wear, overall fine and bright with hinges firm and internally clean, in custom mylar cover.. Red cloth with illustrated cover label. Previously serialized in King Comics as a collection of stories.

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Marge. 4to, full red cloth with color cover plate and interior color plates and line drawings by Marge of Littel Lulu fame. Ogres, pirates, robbers and wizards in the vein of Thompson's Oz continuation tales. Sticker from Green Dolphin Bookshop affixed to rear pastedown. Fine, no dj or previous owner's marks.

Philadelphia: McKay, 1938. Near fine.. First edition in book form of Thompson's adventure serial. The tale of King Kojo, who rules over the land of Oh-Go-Wan (near the Rolantic Ocean) and the adventures that happen there. Previously serialized in King Comics. Brightly illustrated by Marge (of Little Lulu fame). Quarto. Original red cloth with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Color plates, with additional black-and-white in-text illustrations. 239 pages.

THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly. King Kojo. Illustrated by Marge. Philadelphia: David McKay [1938]. 8vo, 239pp. Brick red cloth with color pictorial label affixed to front and spine stamped in black. Pictorial light blue endpapers; 8 color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. Corners and spine ends rubbed, a few spots on cover label heavily rubbed, spine a tad sunned, pp 7-10 nicked along fore-edge, else a clean, tight copy. With flap of dust jacket laid-in and note of authenticity handwritten by Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, the author's niece. Inscribed by the author, Ruth Plumly Thompson, and – curiously – mistakenly dated 1928, ten years before the book was actually published.
First edition. This is the tale of King Kojo who rules over the land of Oh-Go-Wan (near the Rolantic Ocean) and the adventures that happen there. Brightly illustrated by Marge (of Little Lulu fame). This book, published the year before Thompson's last Oz book for Reilly & Lee, shows how Thompson was looking to expand beyond Oz.