The Oz Enthusiast

After their breakout success in the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz , David Montgomery and Fred Stone starred in a string of su...

Last week I featured two 1903 Oz costume designs that I found in a group of drawings by designer Caroline Siedle. They were clearly identif...

As a collector, I find it's the unexpected discoveries that tend to be the most memorable. Last month I stumbled across a listing in an ...

 I’ve posted in the past about The   Bride Her Wedding Book (see here ), a lovely little volume illustrated by John R. Neill in 1914, and p...

Mother Goose in Prose was the first book I read by L. Frank Baum that was not an Oz book. It's a collection of charming "explanati...

Over the years I've picked up several examples of letters from the original Oz creators. Letters are always a fun personal item to view,...

In 1907 and 1908 W. W. Denslow produced a series of comic drawings, illustrating verses written by Dudley A. Bragdon. These are collectively...

Along with his his regular Oz work and other illustrative endeavors, John R. Neill produced a number of drawings for the adventure magazines...