Italian Villas and Their Gardens author-Jerry Spinelli travels by kite to Oz

travels by kite to Oz where he and a rat named Percy overcome Terp the Terrible

Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts

one of the few places that will welcome them

All’s fair in love and cheese — that is

and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing

Italian Villas and Their Gardens author-Jerry Spinelli travels by kite to OzWHARTON, Edith. Italian Villas and their Gardens. Illustrated with Pictures by Maxfield Parrish and Photographs. NY: Century, 1904. 4to, xii 270pp. Green boards pictorially stamped in gilt, white, blue, brown and light green; t. e. g. 15 color and 11 b&w plates by Maxfield Parrish and numerous photographs. A clean, bright copy with wear to spine ends and corners, rear board lightly scratched, light rubbing to lower edge, verso of plates lightly aged,