The Baum Bugle: Winter 1975

Vol. 19, no. 3 (Winter 1975)

Layout and cover design by Dick Martin

Front cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from an unpublished illustration by John R. Neill (Tik-Tok of Oz)

Back cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from art by an uncredited artist (The Land of Oz)

Winter 1975 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.

America in Oz (Part 1)

Harold E. Miner begins a two-part look at how Baum’s contemporary American culture, or reactions to it, worked its way into the fabric of his Oz books. The second half of this essay would be presented in the Winter 1976 issue.

Bibliographia Pseudonymiana

James E. Haff collates bibliographical data about the books Baum wrote under psuedonyms. This installment focuses on “Edith Van Dyne’s” Aunt Jane’s Nieces.

Reviews

Unexplored Territory in Oz by Robert R. Pattrick (non-fiction; reviewer Jay Delkin)

Children’s Literature: The Great Excluded: Volume III by Francelia Butler and Bennett A. Brockman (non-fiction; reviewer Edward Lauterbach)

The Worlds of Fantasy Calendar 1976 Oz illustration by Pauline Ellison (calendar; reviewer David L. Greene)

The Wizard of Oz Pendulum Press edition (fiction; reviewer David L. Greene)

Glinda of Oz William Collins Sons and Co. edition (fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Book Dover edition (coloring book; reviewer David L. Greene)

The Wizard of Oz and The Land of Oz American Learning Society edition (cassette dramas; reviewer David L. Greene)

The Humbler Poets (Second Series): A Collection of Newspaper and Perioidical Verse 1885 to 1910 ed. Wallace and Frances Rice