Index Record
Oz and the Emerald City — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Denslow’s 1900 first-edition Emerald City illustration gives this record a specific visual identity tied directly to Oz as the externalized destination, distinct from the Toto record.
Conventional Reading
Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sends Dorothy and her companions toward the Emerald City and the Wizard in search of help they believe lies at the destination. The first-edition text and illustrations provide the primary source for the Oz and Emerald City motif used here.
Geomytha Reading
Geomytha reads Oz as the destination that teaches the seeker that the missing function was not actually manufactured by the destination. The kingdom-trick is that the journey externalizes what must finally be recognized as already present.
Parent work / tradition / source
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Source location / reference
Library of Congress first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published by Geo. M. Hill Co. in 1900 and illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Reading Boundary
This record does not claim that Baum intended Geomytha’s consciousness grammar or that Oz has one fixed symbolic meaning. The novel supplies the destination-and-seeking structure; the reading that the destination reveals already-present capacities is Geomytha interpretation.
Source trail
Evidence beneath the record
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Library of Congress first edition
Primary bibliographic/archival authority for the 1900 edition and its Denslow illustrations. Appropriate for bibliographic facts, first-edition context, and public-domain status; Geomytha interpretations remain separate.
Geo. M. Hill Co.; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division