The Oz Enthusiast

Summer always seems like a time to have an Oz project in the works - and this has been quite a summer with heat waves and storms! Here's...

I've been lucky this year, in being able to fill a couple holes in my collection of books by L. Frank Baum. I posted about The Navy Alph...

This is just too surreal not to show - Dorothy dolls being created by R. John Wright .

Our local summer book fair was held this weekend, and this year there were quite a few Oz items in the booths. The highlight was a first ed...

One of the highlights of the past two Winkie conventions has been the program book created by David Maxine at Hungry Tiger Press , incorpora...

Here are two copies of L. Frank Baum's American Fairy Tales , published in 1901. I've had the copy on the right (with red flowers on...

Summer seems to be the time for Oz conventions and festivals! Unfortunately, I don't tend to get to any, but there are quite a few to ch...

Yesterday (June 10) would have marked Judy Garland's 89th birthday. So here's a silly little book in honor of the event, Judy Garlan...

Today I received my first book in the series of facsimile Oz books currently being offered by The Bradford Exchange . I wasn't among the...

While digging around in the basement recently, I ran across my Bicentennial scrapbook. As a teenager outside Philadelphia in 1976, I was fas...

About a year and a half ago, I blogged about starting another Ozzy project - namely, small 12" x 12" paintings of John R. Neill il...

Don't forget - in honor of L. Frank Baum's birthday today, take a photo of yourself and something Ozzy in your life and email it to:...

In Michael Hearn and Douglas Greene's 1976 biography of W.W. Denslow, there's an interesting passage quoting the artist on how he ca...

In honor of L. Frank Baum's birthday on May 15th, Oz Club member Jane Albright is asking Oz fans/collectors/enthusiasts to take a photo ...

This is a slightly different W. W. Denslow cover, created for a Rand McNally printing of The Merchant Prince of Cornville .  This is stated ...

This past week, Sotheby's auctioned a portion of the illustration collection of Kendra and Allan Daniels. It happened that I was in New ...

As I've mentioned in the past, my partner and I have a stained glass studio ( centurystudios.com ). We specialize in creating reproducti...

John R. Neill provided thousands of illustrations for the Oz books, so it's not too surprising if some of his images can be traced to ot...

Fred Stone and David Montgomery became stars with the success of their roles as the Scarecrow and Tin Man in the 1903 Broadway hit, The Wiza...