Essential information for collectors, booksellers, & bookbinders about the original George M. Hill edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one of the most sought after first editions in Children's Literature. This new bibliographic description is the result of examining an unprecedented number of copies of the book. It not only describes the First Issue in detail, but identifies, for the first time, five Standard Variants that occurred while the book was produced by Hill between 1900 and 1902.