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The Baum Bugle: Spring 1966

Vol. 10, no. 1 (Spring 1966)

Editors Dick Martin and Fred M. Meyer (uncredited)

Layout and cover design by Dick Martin

Front and back cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from advertising cards (The Maid of Arran)

Spring 1966 Selected Contents

This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.

 

A Memory of My Father

Harry Neal Baum, Baum’s third son, recounts a memory involving The Maid of Arran.

 

The Dakota Days of L. Frank Baum (Part 1)

Matilda J. Gage begins her look at Baum’s days in Aberdeen, South Dakota. This installment focuses on The Maid of Arran and Baum’s Bazaar. This serial ran throughout the 1966 issues.

 

The Wogglebug Encourages Charity

A reproduction of one installment of L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall’s Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz newspaper comic page in 1905.

 

Bibliographia Baumiana

Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of L. Frank Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on Mother Goose in Prose.

 

L. Frank Baum: A Checklist of His Published Work

Dick Martin presents a four-page checklist of works by and about Baum.

 

Bibliographia Oziana

Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of the Oz books. This installment focuses on The Royal Book of Oz, and Kabumpo in Oz.

 

In Memoriam

Maxfield Parrish (illustrator, Mother Goose in Prose) and Ralph Fletcher Seymour (letterer, Father Goose: His Book and cover artist, American Fairy Tales).