Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Music shop stamp on the front cover, and significant tape repairs (internal and external) but the piece is sound and the music remains bright and clean, a complete and good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 4883 - 4. This song is from the original 1902 production of the musical *The Wizard of Oz*. The show was quite successful and continued to tour the United States in some form or another until 1909; the show was released to stock theater companies in 1911 (a detailed history of the show is covered in the book, *Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' on stage and screen to 1939* by Mark Evan Swartz). *OCLC* locates only four holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.

Item #604875