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The first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (to give its full, original title) was the George M. Hill Company of Chicago, which published it in 1900. However, despite the runaway success of their new book, Hill declared bankruptcy a year later, and their assets transferred to the Bowen-Merrill Company in Indianapolis. They put out their first edition of the book, now titled "The New Wizard of Oz", in 1903 under the company's new name, Bobbs-Merrill. The "New" was quickly dropped from the cover (but remained on the title page), and Bobbs-Merrill was the main publisher of "The Wizard of Oz" until 1956, when the story entered public domain and anyone could publish it.

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