The Oz Enthusiast

Eighteen picture books were written and illustrated by W. W. Denslow in 1903 and 1904, and published by the G. W. Dillingham company. The se...

Click here for Part 1 of this article   Click here for Part 2  of this article Marie Lufkin succeeded in commissioning a large Oz painting f...

Click here for Part 1 of this article.   About a year ago I blogged about the start of the relationship between the Lufkin family and Oz ill...

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...