Color edition with 12 full-page illustrations in color and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations. Get this classic illustrated title and get the best start to your collection of all 24 Wizard of Oz books from SeaWolf Press, an Amazon Highly Rated Brand. All SeaWolf Press Oz books feature the original first edition cover and all original illustrations, 120 in this edition. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first edition. Use Amazon's 'Read Sample' feature to compare this edition with others. SeaWolf Press has also released another version of this title in black-and-white. The Gnome King of Oz (1927) is the 21st in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the seventh written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The story follows a boy from Philadelphia, Peter Brown, who gets transported to the Land of Oz and has to deal with the wicked Ruggedo, the exiled Gnome King, and the Patchwork Girl of Oz. Follow Peter's quest to secure some treasure and return home to Philadelphia.