This volume assembled both of Jack Snow's “Oz” Books: The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946) and The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949). These are the is the 37th and 38th volumes in the Oz series. Snow made a conscious attempt to return to L. Frank Baum's inspiration for Oz; in both of his Oz books, he deliberately avoided using characters introduced by Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill, the second and third Royal Chroniclers of Oz.
