Tag: Rare Books
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The Film Box Set to End All Film Box Sets: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Guest Post by Ian Dykstra I love reading about film productions. Getting behind-the-scenes details on how projects came to be, the personalities and processes of casts and crews, and the more technical aspects of filmmaking gives me a greater appreciation for the films I love. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a new Collector’s Edition box set…
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Orienting Images: the interaction of illustrations with the physicality of the book
The Hugo Bürkner preliminary drawings for Georg Wigand’s Robinson Crusoe is a small collection, comprised of a series of sketches by Burkner for a German publication of Robinson Crusoe from 1855. Bürkner (1818-1897) was a German artist who specialized in woodcut printing and Wigand was a publisher, mainly focused on fairytales, who was known for…
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̶H̶a̶l̶f̶ A Third of a Bible is Better Than None (When ̶I̶t̶s̶ It’s an Incunable)
The library of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies holds a small number of incunables in both Hebrew and Latin. Among them is a portion of a Latin Bible (Genesis-Psalms), previously identified as a product of the press of Bernhard Richel (d. 1482) of Basel in 1475. A closer examination this summer, however, revealed…
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Take Note(s): A New Indulgence
A former owner of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection‘s copiously annotated copy of the medico-pharmacological magnum opus Polyanthea Medicinal (1716) by Portuguese physician João Curvo Semmedo (1635-1719) left this note containing what appears to be a recipe of his or her own on a small sheet of paper. Of equal interest is the printed…
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“A Book Is Best! Absolutely!”
Presented without comment, jacket copy from the first American edition of Australian writer Charlotte Jay‘s thriller The Voice of the Crab (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), held in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness at Penn’s Kislak Center (Schimmel Fiction 6057): A Book Is Best!Absolutely! It really is.…
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Postcard from Ramonaland
I recently cataloged an early twentieth-century postcard in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness of potential interest to both deltiologists and aficionados of the mythology of Southern California. The image on the card is a square sepia photograph of a Native American woman seated with her hands in her…