Five College Oz Resources

Compiled by Dee Michel, Sept. 20, 2005

Here is a list of resources related to Oz available from the Five College Libraries and on the Internet. Many of the library items are on the book truck. Feel free to look at them here, or check them out at the Circulation Desk upstairs.

I. Library items

film

The Wizard of Oz / produced by Mervyn LeRoy ; directed by Victor Fleming. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video.
     DVD: Amherst Reserve   PS3503.A923 W591 ; Mount Holyoke Media DVD PN1997 .W59 1999 ; Smith Neilson   DVD PN1997 .W59 1997 c. 2.
     VIDEO : Hampshire Media Video 1286 ; Smith Neilson Video   PN1997 .W59 1991 ; AmherstReserve PS3503.A923 W59 Videocass   c.2   

The Wiz / directed by Sidney Lumet. Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, 1992 VHS. Smith Josten Video VIDEO PN1997 .W58 1992  

audio

The Wizard of Oz : an MGM original sound track recording / music by Harold Arlen ; lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. New York : MGM. Smith Josten Loan LP AR51 OP WI.ST LOAN   c 3; Smith Josten LP AR51 OP WI.ST  , copies 1 and 2

OZ A newly remastered presentation of Herbert Stothart's entire score; an extensive collection of rare and previously unreleased recordings, featuring the songs by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Two CDs. Los Angeles, CA : Rhino Movie Music, 1995. Amherst Music x Compact Disc 64  

The wizard of Oz : vintage recordings from the 1903 Broadway musical / produced by David Maxine. San Diego, CA : Hungry Tiger Press, 2003. Smith Josten CD X OP WIZ9 2003 (1-2)  

The Wiz, Broadway Cast / music & lyrics by Charlie Smalls. New York : Atlantic, 1975.
DVD . Amherst Music Compact Disc 8449

LP . Amherst Depository Smalls 1 ; Smith Josten LP   SM1557 OP WI9.COL 1975  

Come rain or come shine [sound recording] : the Harold Arlen songbook. Philips, 1996. Amherst Music Reserve Compact Disc 7440 ; Smith Josten Compact Disc CD AR51 VE X9.MCN    

fiction

The new Wizard of Oz / by L. Frank Baum; with pictures by W.W. Denslow. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1903 . Mount Holyoke RareBooks, Juvenile PS3503.A923 N49 1903   Library use only

The Wizard of Oz / Baum. Gosset & Dunlap [1956] U Mass PZ8.B327 W5       

The Wizard of Oz & the Land of Oz / illustrated by Rita Fava. New York : Random House, 1960. U Mass   PZ8.B327 Wi5  

Visitors from Oz : the wild adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman / Martin Gardner. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998. U Mass PS3557.A714 V57 1998       

L. Frank Baum's The wonderful Wizard of Oz / illustrated by Barry Moser. West Hatfield, Mass. : Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Smith Rare Book Room   655.173 P385wo Library use only

Little Wizard stories of Oz / by L. Frank Baum. New York ; Schocken Books, 1985. Mount Holyoke Rare Books, Juvenile PS3503.A923 L68 1985   Library use only.

The Wizard of Oz / adapted by Allen Chaffee. New York : Random House, 1950. Simplified version. Mount Holyoke   PZ8.B327 Wh12 Folio    DUE 10-18-05

Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda / A. Volkov ; [pererabotka skazhi Frenka Bauma: Mudrets iz strany Oz] ; khudozhnik L. Vladimirskii. Moskva : Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1984. Russian version of The Wizard of Oz . Smith Neilson   PZ64 .V63 1984     

screenplays, plays, printed music, etc.

The wizard of Oz : the screenplay / by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, & Edgar Allan Woolf. New York, N.Y. : Delta, 1989. . U Mass     PN1997 .W59 1989  

The Wizard of Oz continuity script : March 15, 1939. Turner Entertainment Co. and MGM/UA Home Video, 1993. Amherst PS3503.A923 W58       

The Wizard of Oz : vocal selections / lyrics by E.Y. Harburg ; music by Harold Arlen ; musical arrangements by David Nelson. Hialeah, Fla. : Columbia Pictures Publications, [1983], 1968. Amherst Music Score   x M1508.A74 W58 1983  

The Wiz / book by William F. Brown ; music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls. New York : Samuel French, 1979. Script. Smith Josten Book   ML50.S5625 W59 1979  

The wizard of Oz : a play in three acts / dramatized by Elizabeth Fuller Goodspeed. New York : Samuel French, 1928. Amherst Arch-Special Collections   Plays  Library use only.

The scatterbrained scarecrow of Oz : a play / Alfred Bradley. New York : Samuel French, 1976. Amherst Arch-Special Collections Plays Library use only.

criticism

The annotated Wizard of Oz / edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Patrick Hearn. New York : Norton, 2000. U Mass   PS3503.A723 W59 2000     DUE 05-23-05 BILLED-NOT PAID

The Wizard of Oz / by L. Frank Baum ; Michael Patrick Hearn, editor. New York : Schocken Books, 1983. Includes 21 critical essays. U Mass PS3503.A923 W59 1983       

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in American popular culture / Neil Earle. Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, 1993. Amherst   PS3503.A923 W593 1993  

The historian's Wizard of Oz : reading L. Frank Baum's classic as a political and monetary allegory / edited by Ranjit S. Dighe. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002. Amhest   PS3503.A923 W6345 2002    

The Wizard of Oz : shaping an imaginary world / Suzanne Rahn. New York : Twayne, 1998. Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith Nielson   PS3503.A923 W637 1998  

biographical

The Wizard of Oz and who he was / Martin Gardner and Russel B. Nye, editors. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1957/1994. U Mass PS3503.A923 W59 1994    DUE 10-02-05. Amherst   PS3503.A923 W58 1957  

Who put the rainbow in the Wizard of Oz? : Yip Harburg, lyricist / Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1993. U Mass   ML423.H313 M5 1993    

about the movie

The making of The wizard of Oz / Aljean Harmetz. New York : Knopf, 1977. U Mass   PN1997.W593 H3  c.2 

The wizardry of Oz : the artistry and magic of the 1939 M-G-M classic / Jay Scarfone, William Stillman. New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2004. U Mass     PN1997.W593 S19 2004  

The wizard of Oz / Salman Rushdie. London : BFI, 1992. U Mass PN1997.W593 R87 1992       

Over the rainbow : the Wizard of Oz as a secular myth of America / Paul Nathanson. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1991. U Mass   PN1997.W593 N38 1991       

The ruby slippers of Oz / Rhys Thomas. Los Angeles : Tale Weaver, 1989. Mount Holyoke PN1997.W593 T46 1989    

miscellaneous

Oz before the rainbow : L. Frank Baum's The wonderful Wizard of Oz on stage and screen to 1939 / Mark Evan Swartz. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. U Mass    PS3503.A923 W6385 2000       

The Oz scrapbook / by David L. Greene and Dick Martin. New York : Random House, 1977. About versions and collectibles. Mount Holyoke PS3503.A923 W634 Folio ; Smith Neilson Oversize A Core   PS3503.A923 W634       

Civil rights in Oz : images of Kansas in American popular art / Karal Ann Marling. Lawrence : Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1997. U Mass NX653.K2 M37 1997       

II. internet resources

full text online

All of Baum's Oz novels are available in full text online from Project Gutenberg. You can access them through the Five College Catalog.

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz
3. Ozma of Oz
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
5. The Road to Oz
6. The Emerald City of Oz
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz
8. Tik-Tok of Oz
9. The Scarecrow of Oz
10. Rinkitink in Oz
11. The Lost Princess of Oz
12. The Tin Woodman of Oz
13. The Magic of Oz
14. Glinda of Oz

web sites

International Wizard of Oz Club . http://www.ozclub.org/

Jim's “Wizard of Oz” Website . http://www.geocities.com/~ozfan/index.html

Eric Gjovaag's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website . http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/

Joe Bongiorno's Timeline Universe . http://www.timelineuniverse.net/Oz/Introduction.htm

The Ruby Slipper Fan Club . http://users.deltacomm.com/rainbowz/rubyslipperfanclub/introduction.html

Library of Congress Centenary Exhibit . http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/oz/

discussion groups

International Wizard of Oz Club Forums . http://p208.ezboard.com/bozclubforums

Tik-Tok Talk Mailing List . http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/maillist.html

Publishers, distributors, etc.

Hungry Tiger Press . http://www.hungrytigerpress.com/index.shtml

“Hungry Tiger Press was founded in 1994 … The press publishes books, comics, and music CDs with a special focus on the works of L. Frank Baum and the Land of Oz.” Includes freebies called Tiger Treats and Tiger Tales.

Piglet Press . http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/index.htm
“[A]n independent small publisher formed in 1994. …This Web Site [also] provides a tour of the fantasy land of Oz and its inhabitants.”

The Oz Collector's Society . http://icollectoz.com/
Lots of misspellings, but includes calendar, discussion, classifieds, marketplace, and more.

Beyond the Rainbow to Oz. http://www.beyondtherainbow2oz.com/index.html
A “mail order company that specializes in Judy Garland and Wizard of Oz collectibles and has been in business since 1985.”