1923 Copyright shipping The - Wizard of Oz - The Cowardly Lion of Oz Antique Book

The Cowardly Lion of Oz
By Ruth Plumly Thompson
1923 Copyright
Later Printing
Until 1935 First Edition Oz books had color illustrations. Everyone incorrectly dates all subsequent books to 1923 (crazy hard to date different covers).
9 x 7

The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) is the seventeenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It shipping was illustrated by John R. Neill.

in the Emerald City, the Cowardly Lion[1] believes that he has depleted the reserve of courage imbued in him by the Wizard (as told in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). The mischievous Patchwork Girl, Scraps, misdirects the Lion into thinking that he can replenish his courage by eating a courageous man. Unbeknownst to the Cowardly Lion, he is being hunted by Notta Bit More and Bob Up.

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