The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Any imprint other than Geo. M. Hill — Bobbs-Merrill above all, whose reissues carry the 'New Wizard of Oz' title — is a later edition, not the first. Do not assume a Hill imprint alone proves first state: later Hill text and plate states exist (boxless p. [2] advertisement, thirteen-line reset colophon with no box, 'pieces' corrected, plates without the moon-blots or the horizon shading, broken type at pp. 100 and 186). Full first-state confirmation requires collating the text and plate points against Bibliographia Oziana.