The Oz Enthusiast

The Oz window is finished and in place. We managed to complete it in the time we had allotted for the project, which is always a good t...

At this point, the Oz window is all cut and fit, painting and firing are finished, and it's ready to start assembling. There's been ...

The Oz stained glass window has progressed quite a long way at this point. Almost all of the pieces are cut, and the painting and firing are...

The Oz window is starting to take shape. Here you can see the three figures of Glinda, Ozma and Dorothy coming together against the sky. Onc...

At long last I've begun working on the Oz stained glass window I've talked about and been planning to do for the past 5 years or so....

Happy 4th of July! Once again I've found a Rand McNally book with a W. W. Denslow cover design. This time it's A Maid of the Frontie...

Once again, it's time for the annual local antiquarian book fair. This year there were a few dealers with Oz items - not as many as some...

Last week, Profiles in History held a Hollywood auction that included a number of MGM Oz artifacts. I just ran across the catalog online , ...

Over the years I've run across a variety of things used as bookmarks and left in Oz books. There have been assorted dried flowers and fo...

Here's a 1920 copy of The Road to Oz in dustjacket. What makes this special for me is the fact that the cover design features a blue b...

Noted author and scholar Martin Gardner passed away this past week at the age of 95. I first came across him when I was about 10 years old, ...

I've been working for a long time on collecting a set of Reilly & Britton Oz titles in dustjackets, and I'm slowly closing in in...

In honor of L. Frank Baum's birthday, here's a photo of the local poppy field. Actually, it's part of a neighbor's yard a co...

Here's a couple items I've recently run across. While in New York, I wandered through Fishs Eddy , a fun shop that carries a variety...

This illustration from The Road to Oz (1909), of Polychrome being drawn back up to the rainbow by her father, is one of my favorite John R....

I've just finished reading a copy of The Tapestry Room, written by the British author Mrs. Molesworth in 1879, and ran across an intere...

I've mentioned in the past that one of the things I'd love to have is a piece of original John R. Neill artwork from The Road to Oz ...