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The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

L. Frank Baum

First published 1903
Publisher Bobbs-Merrill Company
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Cover art Frank Ver Beck
Pages 236+[1]
Price $1.25

New edition (1st under this title)

  • OCLC: "5 preliminary leaves, 236 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates 24 cm"
  • Month inferred from the dates 11-15/16/21 of notices--two or three new holiday/Christmas books by Baum from Bobbs-Merrill--in Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco newspapers
  • Price from advertisements Austin Statesman 12-03 (postpaid; illustrated in color) and SL Post-Dispatch 12-11
  • 9-3/8 x 7-1/8 per The Sun (Baltimore) 1903-12-03 "Gift Books" (as 237 pp)
Some library records credit the illustrator as "Frank Verbeck" (above) and "F. Verbeck" ({{OCLC|752516582}}, as 237 pp). "Ver Beck" is stated in some but not all contemporary newspaper notices and reviews.

Year Reviewer Publication
1968 David Greene & Douglas Greene The Baum Bugle, Autumn 1968

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Cover 1947 Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover Novel Evelyn Copelman 187
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Cover 1968 Dover Publications Trade Paperback Novel Frank Ver Beck xi+237
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People 2005 Project Gutenberg eBook Novel 16259
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Cover 2010 LibriVox digital audio download Novel Frank Ver Beck
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Cover 2012 eBook Novel
The Surprising Adventures Of The Magical Monarch Of Mo And His People Cover 2013 CreateSpace Trade Paperback Novel 140