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Title: The Lost Princess of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Release Date: January 30, 2008 [eBook #24459]

Language: English

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THE LOST PRINCESS OF OZ

by

L. FRANK BAUM

Author of
The Road to Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The
Emerald City of Oz, The Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz,
The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Tik-Tok of
Oz, The Scarecrow of Oz,
Rinkitink in Oz

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Illustrated by John R. Neill

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago

[Illustration: Copyright 1917 by L. Frank Baum
All Rights Reserved]

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This Book is Dedicated
To My Granddaughter
OZMA BAUM]

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TO MY READERS

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This
pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its
present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover
America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination
has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and
the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became
realities. So I believe that dreams--day dreams, you know, with your
eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to
the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the
imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent