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The Baum Bugle.
Brooklyn, N. Y. and Kinderhook, Ill.: International Wizard of Oz Club, June 1957-December 1966. (Each averaging 275 x 215 mm except for Vol. 1, No. 2 (1957) which is 325 x 200 mm). Condition : creases, some tears, spotting and other wear. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. complete run of the first ten years of the influential oz journal with the rare original invitation to join the international wizard of oz club . With contributions by Ruth Plumly Thompson, Jack Snow, Dick Martin, Frank J. Baum, Harry Neal Baum, Matilda Jewell Gage, Martin Gardner, Russell P. MacFall, Russell B. Nye, Edward Wagenknecht and others. The Christmas 1960 issue contains “The Scarecrow to the Rescue” by William L. Gresham about his depression when his wife Joy Gresham left for England with their two sons to pursue C. S. Lewis. From the founding of the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1957 by thirteen-year-old Justin G. Schiller, The Baum Bugle became the journal of record for all things Ozian. Originally a biannual, it became a triquarterly in 1961 and has remained so ever since. The original membership was just sixteen members so the earliest issues are extremely scarce. According to Schiller, no more than fifty copies of the letter of invitation to join the club were sent out. Few are known to survive. [With:] Press release from Columbia University by John Hastings, four newspaper clippings, one creased sheet of Schiller’s International Wizard of Oz Club stationary with envelope and a photograph of Schiller conversing with Dick Martin at the Oz club convention at Ozcot Wizard of Oz Lodge, Bass Lake, Indiana, June 1963 . 5 ff. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. To publicize the centennial exhibition of L. Frank Baum and his works at Butler Library, Columbia University released on February 10, 1956 a story about twelve-year-old Brooklyn boy Justin G. Schiller, the youngest lender to Columbia Libraries in the school’s two-hundred-year history. A year later he founded The International Wizard of Oz Club. [And:] The Best of the Baum Bugle . Kinderhook, Ill.: International Wizard of Oz Club, 1966. 32 pp. Folio (280 x 215 mm). Decorated self-wrappers. [And:] The Best of the Baum Bugle 1961-1962 . Kinderhook, Ill.: International Wizard of Oz Club, 1971. 56 pp. Folio (280 x 220 mm). Decorated self-wrappers. [And:] The Ozmapolitan . Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1963 and 1965. Each 4 pp. Folio (220 x 222 mm). Condition : slightly yellowed. three issues of the mock oz newspaper . Reilly & Lee issued these flyers to advertise Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) and new editions of the Baum Oz Books and Sky Island in 1965. They were sent with copies of The Baum Bugle . Dick Martin designed and provided all the copy for these three numbers. [And:] The American Book Collector . Two special numbers devoted to L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow, December 1962 and December 1964. Each 32 pp. Folio (280 x 220 mm). Original decorated self-wrappers. With contributions by Harry Neal Baum, Martin Gardner, Russell P. MacFall, Dick Martin, Justin G. Schiller, Edward Wagenknecht and others. Both contain valuable bibliographies of Baum and Denslow. The Baum Special Number includes a previously unpublished “Animal Fairy Tale,” “The Tiger’s Eye,” pp. 21-24.