W.W. Denslow, L. Frank Baum

Exceptionally scarce first edition thus, entirely intact first state of the "Waddle Book" version of The Wizard Of Oz, published with 6 figures meant to be punched out and used as toys.

• By L. Frank Baum (American).
• Illustrated by W.W. Denslow (American).
• Complete With All The Original Figures, Ramp, Band, and Pictorial Envelope
• New York: Blue Ribbon, (1934).
• Illustrated with 8 color plates.
• Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on, publisher's imprint at foot of spine.
• In original unclipped ($1.00) color pictorial dust jacket.
• Original pictorial envelope containing the ramp and fasteners.
• 3 bi-folded sheets with 6 color waddle figures, unpunched but no longer bound in.

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.