The Oz Enthusiast

As a collector, I really haven’t branched into the large field of foreign editions of the Oz books. But there are a few examples that I ha...

Here’s a pair of fun items I recently picked up; two costume designs from the Shirley Temple television production of The Land of Oz . Shirl...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published in 1900 with great success, and around 1906 the first commercial British edition of the book...

 Last summer I posted some postcards , from John R. Neill’s series of comical drawings titled Life Among the Macaronis . Since then I’ve pic...

The Wogglebug Book is one of L. Frank Baum’s rarer and lesser known efforts. The 1905 book is controversial today due to examples of stereo...

Here's another postcard relating to the stage producion of The Wizard of Oz, complete with a little portrait of the Scarecrow! This tim...

It’s always amusing to run across an unsolicited comment about a show - whether favorable or not! I picked up a postcard recently whose auth...

As a book collector, I've always found paper spines to be completely impractical; especially on children's books, which were never m...

On October 19th, 1909, the above announcement appeared in the town newspaper of Grand Junction, Colorado. The local Elks Lodge (#575) had de...

Some years ago Irwin and I visited with Kendra Daniels, a collector and dealer in children's illustration art, at her home. We viewed th...

 This past weekend Irwin and I visited the Kerlan Collection , at the University of Minnesota, to view the W. W. Denslow materials in their ...