First Sate "The Road to Oz," L. Frank Baum, 1909

First state, early copy. (Matches all first-state points except for early state printing errors on pages 34 and 121; and the presence of both the caption and numeral present on page 129.) Published by Reilly & Britton. Illustrated in black and white by John R. Neill. 261 color-tinted pages. First State Points Light green pictorial fine-grained cloth cover stamped with red and dark green text. Green text on the spine with the publisher's name in capital and lowercase letters and a depiction of Toto's face. The back cover features profile silhouettes of Ozma and Dorothy in a sunburst. Pictorial tan pastedowns with red accents. Includes two pages of advertisements. The first lists the titles published under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft. The second lists three prior books in the series as well as John Dough and the Cherub. The tinted gatherings are arranged in the following order: off-white (1-32), lavender (33-64), gray (65-96), light blue (97-128), salmon (129-160), tan (161-192), li