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Good News in History, May 17
125 years ago today, L. Frank Baum's first children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in the US. The first edition was printed...
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On This Day in History
Good News in History, May 17
125 years ago today, L. Frank Baum's first children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in the US. The first edition was printed and bound by Baum himself for presentation to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. The first 10,000 copies sold out fast, and by 1938 over a million were sold. Telling the story of a simple farm girl from Kansas being swept up by a twister and landing in a mysterious fantastical world, it was the first novel in a series that would extend up to 14 entries. READ more... (1900)