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#OZ-6 - “The Gnome King of OZ” - by Ruth Plumly Thompson - 1927 - $125.00 Reilly and Lee Co., Chicago, 1927. Hardcover. No Dustjacket, as published. Book Condition: VeryGood. John R. Neill illustrations. The 21st of the OZ stories, begun by L. Frank Baum, and continued by Ruth Plumly Thompson. In this book, Ruggedo, the old Gnome King, escapes from Runaway Island. The Patchwork Girl has disappeared from the Capital. These and other events come to our understanding, and order is restored in the Marvelous Land of OZ. Bound in green cloth, this is a First Edition, (as confirmed by Hanff, Greene, et al. “Bibliographia Oziana”). All 12 of Neill’s wonderful original color illustrations, but dozens of John R. Neill’s wonderful b&w illustrations as well. The paste-down color illustration on the front cover is bright and fully intact, with just a bit of light rubbing at the edges, light bumping to the extremities and some spots along the edges and lower spine where a silverfish ate through the green and exposed the underlying fabric, a bit of handling soil on the spine edges, text block and hinges are intact and tight... the latter having been professionally strengthened, illustrated front and back end-papers. NO other faults.