The Oz Enthusiast

Bookplates have always been popular as a means of identifying ownership of favorite books. The earliest examples originated in Germany, an...

The past six months or so have been an unusual and surprising sort of golden period for me, in the acquisition of original Oz artwork. A...

Last Autumn I posted about an exhibition at the New York Public Library called The A B C of It: Why Children's Books Matter - the phot...

Here's a piece I picked up on eBay recently. This is a facsimile dust jacket created by John Anthony Miller, for the first editio...

There is a fascinating Kickstarter project running currently, aimed at this year's Winkie Convention in California; a production of Th...

Last fall I blogged about a drawing from The Marvelous Land of Oz that I purchased at auction. This happens to be one of my favorite Oz boo...

In my last post, I showed a piece of original art by W. W. Denslow featuring the Scarecrow and Tin Man, from Denslow's 1904 comic page. ...

In 1904, W. W. Denslow produced a comic page called Denslow's Scarecrow and the Tinman , which ran for 14 weeks. The strip showed the ...

Happy 2014! In honor of the 100th anniversary of the book Tik-Tok of Oz , here's the original artwork for a lovely portrait of the me...

Once again, the Oz characters celebrate a holiday! Be sure to click the image for a larger view.

Here is one of Reilly & Britton's special publications - the Christmas Stocking Series, packed in a cardboard Christmas trunk! Th...

Quite some time ago - about 2 1/2 years in fact -  I blogged about the idea of combining a Tiffany Studios' Poppy lamp design with W....

Blown Away is an odd little book published in 1897, three years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The interesting thing about it is t...

An Ozzy Thanksgiving story from 1904 - if you click on the image and expand it, you might almost be able to read it!

Utopia Americana is the first critical study of the Oz books, published in 1929. It was written by Edward Wagenknecht, a professor at the...

A while back I posted a recently acquired original publicity photo for the later run of the 1903 Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz, ...

Animal Fairy Tales was a series of stories by L. Frank Baum, published in The Delineator magazine in 1905. In his stories, Baum introduce...

In 1904, John R. Neill was tapped to illustrate the second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz . Apparently he was busy with other projects at...

A while back, I posted a Russian Oz postcard showing Strasheela, the Scarecrow. Since then, I've gradually managed to get what appear...