"The Emerald City of Oz" by L. Frank Baum and ill by JOhn R. Neill - The Reilly & Britton, Chicago - 1910 first thus American edition - 25cmx18cm - condition: very good, in original ill. publisher's binding with publisher's binding, coloured plates present, ill. endpapers The Emerald City of Oz is the sixth of L. Frank Baum's fourteen Oz books. Originally published on July 20, 1910, it is the story of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em coming to live in Oz permanently. While they are toured through the Quadling Country, the Nome King is assembling allies for an invasion of Oz. This is the first time in the Oz series that Baum made use of double plots for one of the books.[1] Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz three years later, with seven other Oz books to follow