Reception; Later Editions
The first edition of Magical Mimics was not a commercial success; a backlog of unsold copies delayed the next Oz book, originally projected for 1947, until 1949. Kramer's illustrations for Magical Mimics have been criticized as deficient. Magical Mimics had been out of print for decades when the International Wizard of Oz Club issued a reprint in 1990, with a useful Afterword by Michael Gessel. Other editions followed, from Books of Wonder (1991) and Kessinger (2007).
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