Queen Zixi Advertising

Well as many of you may or may not know my biggest love with all things Oz is the books. I don't have them all as of yet but it has been an incredible journey finding them, buying them and reading them all of them for the first time. I am at the point where I would love to sit and re-read what I have but my stack of new Judy Book purchases I have to read the first time through before I get to re-read anything.

Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak is a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Fredrick Richardson. It was originally serialized in the early 20th century American children's magazine St. Nicholas from November 1904 to October 1905, and was published in book form later in 1905. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land of Oz, and Baum himself commented this was the best book he had written.

In a letter to his eldest son, Frank Joslyn Baum, he said it was "nearer to the 'old-fashioned' fairy tale than anything I have yet accomplished," and in many respects, it adheres more closely to the fairy tale structure than the Oz books. Although Oz remains the more popular region, many readers have held that Queen Zixi of Ix is a better book than The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The book was made into the 1914 film The Magic Cloak of Oz. Although no part of the book's story takes place in the Land of Oz, by the time the movie was made, it had become clear that the Oz franchise was Baum's most popular creation.

The Copyright to Queen Zixi of Ix was acquired by Dover Publications in 1971, and the book was re-released with its original illustrations and a new introduction by Martin Gardner. Like all books published in the U.S. before 1923, it is now in the public domain.

This piece is actual advertising that used in Harpers Magazine Advertiser and form what I here may be rare or hard to find. Of course courtesy of E-bay.

Although this is not Queen Zixi it is a silent movie Oz