Featured Items

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L. Frank Baum and Oz-Related

The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Good condition, first edition with dust jacket
$295

Grandpa in Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Good condition, first edition with dust jacket
$395

Queen Zixi of Ix; Or, the Story of the Magic Cloak
L. Frank Baum
Good condition, first edition
$400

Original Cover Artwork

Shakedown
$14,000

Original artwork by Norman Saunders for Ace Book D-17, Shakedown, by Roney Scott (William Campbell Gault) (1953). The paperback is a First Printing. A dramatic image of a beautiful woman, with two men fighting in the foreground. The artwork image shown is the full painting, which was edited for the book cover. Prolific artist Saunders is perhaps best known for his pulp paperback covers and the original 1960s Topps trading card series Mars Attacks. According to Saunders' son, David, an accomplished artist himself, the female model who posed for the painting, Ellene Politis, is actually his mother, who married the artist.

Original Saunders paintings are exceptionally scarce. Painting is professionally double-matted, at least 15"x18", and signed by the artist.

The book (pictured right) is included with the painting. Click on the image to view the artwork in another window.

Little Black Sambo and Original Art
$7,500

Book plus original artwork. Five pieces of artwork—three interior plates, about 6.75" x 8.75", and two sketch and final plates for the cover, about 11"x12". Click on the images below to view them in another window.