The rights to these books were held by the Walt Disney Company, and their impending expiration was a prime motivator for the production of the 1985 film " Return to Oz", based on Baum's second and third Oz books. Baum's thirteen sequels entered public domain in the United States from 1960 through 1986. The original book has been in public domain in the United States since 1956. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900. Hill Company, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. In January 1901 the publisher, the George M. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum's writing and having published thirteen more Oz books.īaum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," Maud Gage Baum.
Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Hill Company in Chicago in 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name "The Wizard of Oz", which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. It was originally published by the George M. Pages = 259 p., 21 leaves of plates (first edition hardcover)įollowed_by = The Marvelous Land of Oz "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a children's novel written by L. Imported from Collingswood Public Library MARC record.Media_type = Print ( Hardcover and Paperback), Audiobook pour la jeunesse,Īmerican fiction (fictional works by one author),Ĭopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Tin Woodman (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction, Wizard of Oz (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction,
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