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A COLLECTING CHALLENGE Bin wine labels & prison peepholes unusual & collectable
THE PRINTED WORD Why savvy collectors know it is irreplaceable
AMERICANA IN AUSTRALIA Easily sourced Politics to folk art to Hollywood
MORE ON TOXICS What are you sitting on? Buy antique & avoid the allergy effect
RETURN TO OZ a history of the journey The iconic 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, one of the best-known stories in American popular culture was based on L. Frank Baum's charming 1900 publication, one of a canon of 14 Oz books which inspired younger generations and continues to do so through today's collectors
Eleanor Keene
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grew up a child of the ’80s; I was about seven years old when the Disney film Return to Oz was released and remember with great excitement going
to see the film, and later having my dad buy me the accompanying film book from the school book club. I think this was the start of my Oz obsession, and so my dad, being the wonderful father that he is, dutifully read to me every night before bed from the collection of Oz books; and when I say books – I mean the whole 14 that L. Frank Baum wrote! When many people think of Oz they recall the Wizard of Oz and nothing more but the magic that came alive in these fantasy fairytales of a faraway land where animals spoke, people didn’t age and little girls ran the land invoked my imagination. It was the female leads in the Oz books
that had the power, went on adventure and
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