Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!boyajian%akov68.DEC From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Oz books Message-ID: <2484@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 06:36:25 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2484 Posted: Thu Jul 4 06:36:25 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:32:44 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (JERRY BOYAJIAN) I won't repeat the wealth of Oz information that others have so eloquently given, but one point remains to be questioned: > From: mccullough.pa@Xerox.ARPA > Another little known fact, visible if you go to a B. Dalton > bookstore and look at the recent republishing of Oz books...most > were not written by L. Frank Baum, but by another author, and > published under Baum's name. I assume that you refer to the recent Del Rey trade paper reprints of some of the Ruth Plumly Thompson Oz books. If so, your "little known fact" is dead wrong. They were *not* published "under Baum's name" --- the by-line is very clearly Ruth Plumly Thompson. There *is* a line referring to the books as "continuing the famous stories of L. Frank Baum" or somesuch (I can't quote it directly) and granted, it's in type as big as the title or by-line, but that's another matter entirely. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">