The Lost King of Oz. By Ruth Plumly Thompson founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum, The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925.
 
Juvenile Fiction Novel
Vintage from the 1920s
 
The Lost King of Oz is the nineteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fifth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was Illustrated by John R. Neill.
 
Old Mombi, formerly the Wicked Witch of the North, is now a cook in the land of Kimbaloo. One day she comes across Pajuka, the former prime minister of Oz, transformed by Mombi into a goose years before. She sets out to find Pastoria, the king of Oz, whom she also enchanted in the past. However, she has forgotten what shape she transformed Pastoria into. She kidnaps a local boy called Snip as her unwilling assistant and bearer of burdens.
 
The rear bottom cover is mottled from what must have been a jacket on it at one time and there is a small black line near the top center (on the rear cover as well. The front pasted cover illustration looks really good. There is just a little bit of wear at the spine and there are a few tiny numbers that are not really noticeable. The binding is nicely secure and the rear inside cover illustration s have some child's coloring to the two opposite OZ signs (on the outer rim), otherwise nice clean pages. Just over 9 x 6-1/2 with 279 pages.