My father had many of L. Frank Baum's books--it was sort of a franchise in the early 1900s.
There are Oz fanatics out there. That link will take you to a literary site; it's also on a webring, so go enjoy.
The Famous Forty Canon consists of the forty original Oz books published by the Reilly & Lee company of Chicago (the first book was originally published by George M. Hill, and Reilly & Britton was the company's name through 1919). These original forty titles span the years 1900 through 1963 and five writers - the most prolific ones being Lyman Frank Baum (of course), the discoverer and then "Royal Historian" of Oz; and his immediate successor, Ruth Plumly Thompson. Between them, they related 33 tales from Oz (14 by LFB and 19 by RPT).
Also, with the exceptions of the very first Oz tale [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)] and the final four, the other 35 Oz tales were all illustrated to perfection by John R. Neill.
Besides the Original, my favorites were:
Ozma of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz
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