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Alice's adventures in Wonderland A visionary editor at Random House commissioned Dalí to illustrate a limited edition of Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
(https://mymodernmet.com/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland/)
1969 limited edition, signed by Salvador Dali,
Located in the Rare Books collection {PR4611 .A7 1969}
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Legends of the Virgin and Christ, with special reference to literature and art First book acquired for library collection was published in 1897 by H.A. Grueber,
Located in the Rare Books collection {BT520 .G81897}
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Notes On My Books 1921, Limited signed edition No. 181 of 250.
Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and "Heart of Darkness," recounts his experiences with the writing process. He also relates in detail his intentions and aspirations for each of his major works.
(simonandschuster.com/books/Notes-on-My-Books/Joseph-Conrad/9781633550896)
Located in the Rare Books collection {PR6005.O4 A145 1921}
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The White Peacock; a novel The White Peacock is the first novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1911. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of Laetitia.
(https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-peacock-d-h-lawrence/1123855581)
Located in the Rare Books collection { PR6023.A93 W451911}
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Poor Richard improved: being an almanack and ephemeris ... for the bissextile year, 1748 : ... Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees, and a meridian of near five hours from London; ... With the almanac for 1748 Benjamin Franklin introduced an important change which he continued in the years that followed: he expanded his pamphlet to thirty-six pages and gave two facing pages to each month. With some minor differences the left-hand one was like the single monthly page of the earlier issues. Part of each right-hand page was given to additional tabular matter and the rest was filled with “literary” material.
(https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0103)
Located in the Rare Books collection {PS749 .A2 1748}
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Cuneiform tablet A 4 x 4 x 2 cm clay tablet from 2000 B.C.E. in the Sumerian language.
Located in the Book Arts collection {PJ4071 .C874 2xxxa}
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Perlen der Gnade : vollständiges Gebetbuch für katholische Christen 1896 elaborately decorated German prayer book by Franz Proschwitzer.
Located in the Rare Books collection {BX2116 .P467 1896a}
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Melissa Toad, Witch : a novella Ray Bradbury's manuscript, Melissa Toad, Witch, is a carbon of the finished story & rejected pages dated Sept. 19, 1970.
Original typescript manuscript with holograph corrections. Three copies of the story. Corrections in red and blue inks, pencil and occasional paste-over typewritten rewrites.
Published in 1976 in Gallery, vol. 4, no. 4 (Apr. 1976) and in Long After Midnight with a new title, "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds."
Located in the Manuscript collection {PS3503.R167 M45 1970a}
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Martialis Cum Duobus Commentis.
Epigrammata. With a publication date of 1493, this is the oldest complete book in the collection. It is written in Latin.
Located in the Rare Books collection {PA6501 .A2 1493}
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Dimensions *Reagan, the Man from Main Street USA - a miniature book, the smallest book in the collection at 1 inch high
Located in the Rare Books collection {E877 .T75 1980a}
*Dante's La Divina Commedia: Paradiso - an elephant folio, the largest book in the collection at 32 inches high
Located in the Rare Books collection {PQ4329 .N377 1923a}
