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  |                             The                              |
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  |                       Scarecrow of Oz                        |
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  |                              by                              |
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  |                        L. Frank Baum                         |
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===== The Famous Oz Books =====

Since 1900, when L. Frank Baum introduced to the children of America
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ and all the other exciting characters who
inhabit the land of Oz, these delightful fairy tales have stimulated the
imagination of millions of young readers.

These are stories which are genuine fantasy creative, funny, tender,
exciting and surprising. Filled with the rarest and most absurd
creatures, each of the 14 volumes which now comprise the series, has been
eagerly sought out by generation after generation until to-day they are
known to all except the very young or those who were never young at all.

When, in a recent survey, The =New York Times= polled a group of teen agers
on the books they liked best when they were young, the Oz books topped
the list.


                           THE FAMOUS OZ BOOKS
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                            By L. Frank Baum:

                      THE WIZARD OF OZ
                      THE LAND OF OZ
                      OZMA OF OZ
                      DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ
                      THE ROAD TO OZ
                      THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ
                      THE PATCHWORK GIRL OF OZ
                      TIK-TOK OF OZ
                      THE SCARECROW OF OZ
                      RINKITINK IN OZ
                      THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ
                      THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ
                      THE MAGIC OF OZ
                      GLINDA OF OZ

           Chicago      THE REILLY & LEE CO.      _Publishers_


[Illustration: THE SCARECROW _OF_ OZ]

Dedicated to

"The Uplifters" of Los Angeles, California, in grateful appreciation
of the pleasure I have derived from association with them, and in
recognition of their sincere endeavor to uplift humanity through
kindness, consideration and good-fellowship. They are big men all of them
and all with the generous hearts of little children.

L. Frank Baum


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  |                             THE                              |
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  |                      =SCARECROW OF OZ=                       |
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  |                              BY                              |
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  |                        L. FRANK BAUM                         |
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  |                          AUTHOR OF                           |
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  |  THE ROAD TO OZ, DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ, THE EMERALD   |
  |  CITY OF OZ, THE LAND OF OZ, OZMA OF OZ. THE PATCHWORK GIRL  |
  |                     OF OZ, TIK-TOK OF OZ                     |
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  |                        ILLUSTRATED BY                        |
  |                        JOHN R. NEILL                         |
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  |                    =The Reilly & Lee Co=                     |
  |                           Chicago                            |
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  |                          COPYRIGHT                           |
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  |                           1915 BY                            |
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  |                         L Frank Baum                         |
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  |                             ALL                              |
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  |                       RIGHTS RESERVED                        |
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'TWIXT YOU AND ME

The Army of Children which besieged the Postoffice, conquered the Postmen
and delivered to me its imperious Commands, insisted that Trot and Cap'n
Bill be admitted to the Land of Oz, where Trot could enjoy the society
of Dorothy, Betsy Bobbin and Ozma, while the one-legged sailor-man might
become a comrade of the Tin Woodman, the Shag