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[Description: Image 257. Image of back endpaper (blank page) from L. Frank Baum's, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Dorothy, barefoot, sits with her legs stuck out, braced by her arms behind her, on a pile of hay, her basket spilled to her left, and Toto at her right. In the upper right hand corner are inerlaced illuminated capitals "B" and "D," presumably standing for "Baum" and "Denslow," the book's author and illustrator. ]

Here ends the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which was written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by William Wallace Denslow. The engravings were made by the Illinois Engraving Company, the paper was supplied by Dwight Brothers Paper Company, and Mssrs. A. R. Barnes & Company printed the book for the publishers, the George M. Hill Company, completing it on the fifteenth day of May, in the year nineteen hundred.