<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> and only printing of this "summer comedy," self-published by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=l%20frank%20baum&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baum</a>, set near Lake Michigan where Baum wrote many of his books.<ul><li>John Estes Cooke [pseudonym of L. Frank Baum] (American).</li><li>[Macatawa, Michigan]:&nbsp;Tamawaca Press,&nbsp;(1907).</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>185, [1] pages.</li><li>Original blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in blue and white, all edges uncut.</li></ul> The title is an anagram for Macatawa, the resort on Lake Michigan where Baum wrote many of his books and serves as the setting for this satire. Baum himself makes a brief appearance as Mr. Wright. The book may have been published by Baum himself, and it was only at Macatawa.

Tamawaca Folks First Edition

Exceptionally scarce first edition thus, entirely intact first state of the "Waddle Book" version of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Wizard%20Of%20Oz&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Wizard Of Oz</a>, published with 6 figures meant to be punched out and used as toys.<ul><li>By L. Frank Baum (American).</li><li>Illustrated by W.W. Denslow (American).</li><li>Complete With All The Original Figures, Ramp, Band, and Pictorial Envelope</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Blue Ribbon,&nbsp;(1934).</li><li>Illustrated with 8 color plates.</li><li>Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on, publisher's imprint at foot of spine.</li><li>In original unclipped ($1.00) color pictorial dust jacket.</li><li>Original pictorial envelope containing the ramp and fasteners.</li><li>3 bi-folded sheets with 6 color waddle figures, unpunched but no longer bound in.</li></ul> The "waddle" book is designed with die-cut figures that can be assembled into full 3D color figures, including Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Wizard and the Lion. When the figures are assembled using the metal fasteners, they can actually move down the ramp without contrivances. This copy includes all 6 waddle figures (entirely unpunched), the ramp, the fasteners, the original pictorial band that goes around the ramp, and the original envelope. Instructions for assembling the figures are in the rear. This is a Baum book of the utmost rarity with few copies surviving with the waddles intact and unpunched.

Wizard Of Oz Waddle Book

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first printing of the follow up to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=L.+Frank+Baum&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">L. Frank Baum</a>.<ul><li>L. Frank Baum (American).</li><li>Illustrated by J.R. Neill (American).</li><li>Chicago:&nbsp;Reilly &amp; Britton,&nbsp;1904.</li><li>287, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with numerous full and partial page black and white, 16 color plates on glossy stock inserted throughout the text block by J.R. Neill, and photo-pictorial endpapers of Montgomery and Stone.</li><li>Last typeset line on copyright page reads "All rights reserved," caption of illustration facing page 23 "I DON'T WANT TO BE A MARBLE STATUE."</li><li>Bound in the original red pictorial cloth titled in dark blue on spine panel and in blue and silver on front cover, the spine with a decorative image of General Jinjur standing atop an emerald.</li></ul> Returning characters Scarecrow and Tin Man are joined by new favorites like Jack Pumpkinhead and the Woggle Bug in a fantasy adventure with political machinations in the kingdom of Oz. Aspects of this Oz book were adapted (along with Ozma of Oz) into the 1985 cult film Return to Oz. According to Baum bibliographer Bienvenue, there were five major printings of this title; the first printing, as here, is quite scarce on the marketplace today — and in fact, scarcer than the first/first of the book's legendary predecessor, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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