The Oz Enthusiast

I’ve posted a number of times in the past about books published by Rand McNally, with cover designs by W. W. Denslow. Recently, I picked up ...

The original edition of The Road to Oz is one of the handful of Oz books featuring a jacket with a different design than the cover of the...

For the last couple weeks, I've been working on a fun project - some figures of the 1903 Oz stage characters. Here's my version of t...

The Patchwork Girl of Oz was the first feature film produced by the Oz Film Manufacturing Co. It was filmed in 1914, a year after the succe...

Here's an interesting drawing by John R. Neill; this is an unidentified illustration, probably never used. It shows a crowd of winged m...

The Wizard of Oz Story Book is one of the publications issued in Great Britain in 1940, at the time of the MGM film premiere in England. Hu...

P eter and the Princess  was published in 1920 by Reilly and Lee, as an elaborately boxed gift book. The book is a fantasy, by Carl Grabo,...

Today I’m showing a cabinet card photo of the Tin Woodman from The Wizard of Oz . It may not be immediately obvious that that's who it i...

I’ve blogged about The Perhappsy Chaps in the past, but since that time I’ve acquired a boxed copy of the book. Ruth Plumly Thompson wro...

Recently, I’ve been scanning a number of dust jackets for Mark Terry at Facsimile Dust Jackets . He offers a large line of dust jacket repro...

In 1913 the Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Co. leased the printing plates of their line of L. Frank Baum books to M. A. Donohue & Co., a disco...

A second piece of artwork by John R. Neill accompanied the World War One letters mentioned in my last post . This drawing shows a speaker in...