A VG+ book, the larger of two versions of the first edition, with fading on the boards where there is loss to the dust jacket. 4to 11" - 13" tall 143 pages.Ģ0.5 x 29.1 cm green cloth boards with gilt stamped titles on black spine labels, 143pp including 20 brightly coloured images. Langley disliked their changes and removed many of them." Bonus: New York Times clipping of ad for Radio City Music Hall showing of Hitchcock's film, Rebecca, dated 1940. But, producer Arthur Freed was displeased with their work and turned the script back over to Langley. However, unbeknownst to him, MGM hired Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf to do rewrites. Langley also introduced Miss Almira Gulch, the Wicked Witch's Kansas counterpart.
Changes he introduced to the story are the inclusion of the actors playing the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Lion characters as farmworkers in the sepia tone Kansas sequences as well as changing the color of Dorothy's shoes from silver to ruby. In 11 days, he provided a 43-page adaptation. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for film. "In part due to the success of his own children's book The Land of Green Ginger, Langley was one of the screenwriters chosen for the job of adapting L. Scarce copy, particularly with dustjacket. Foxing to rear endpapers and a couple of preceding pages - does not affect the text nor the illustration. Swastika on front panel has been blocked out (but not on page 125). Dustjacket has chips and edgewear - see image.
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