-
The Hobbit : or, There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 edition, second impression.
Highlights include:
Maps on endpapers,
Colored illustrations by Tolkien,
Kept in clamshell box with maps pasted on the interior.
Held in the SFWA collection {PR6039.O32 H6 1937a}
-
For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940, First Edition, later printing of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Held in the American Popular Literature (APL) collection {PS3515.E37 F6 1940a}
-
Fore-edge paintings "Fore-edge painting is a technique of painting the edges of the leaves, or folios, of a book, employed in the European Middle Ages. From 1650 onward a number of London binders practiced a new decorative method of fore-edge painting: floral scrolls or scenes were painted upon the fanned-out fore-edge of the leaves and concealed by a normal gilt edge when the book was closed; they became visible only when it was opened. This decorative device was continued in the 18th century, but by the late 19th century fore-edge painting began to wane in popularity."
(https://www.britannica.com/art/fore-edge-painting)
*Top: painting of cityscape -
The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit (1842),
held in RBX {BT121 .B825x 1842a}
*Middle: painting of waterfront and two ships -
Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron (1838),
held in the Lord Byron collection {PR4381.A3 M6 1838a}
*Bottom: painting of the countryside with pond and tree -
The Seasons (1811),
held in RBX {PR3732 .S41811b}
-
Dracula 1897, First edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Held in the SFWA collection {PR6037.T617 D7 1897a}
-
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized version The Bible is illustrated by Gustave Doré, (1832—1883). Doré was a French printmaker, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians.
(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Dore)
Held in RBX {BS185 1800 .L65 1800a}
-
The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska 1907-1930
Creators:
Edward S. Curtis,
Frederick Webb Hodge, ,
Theodore Roosevelt,
J. Pierpont Morgan.
Original photogravures produced in Norwood, Mass. by Plimpton Press and in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving from 1903-1925.
Vols. 9-20 have title: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska ...
Vols. 6-20 printed at the Plimpton press, Norwood, Mass.
Vols. 3-20 contain vocabularies.
Supplemented by: "The North American Indian, list of large plates supplementing v. 1-20." (20 portfolios of numbered plates 60 x 50 cm.
Located in the Rare Books collection {E77.C97}
-
The Canterbury Tales : the New Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile 1995, The New Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile is limited to 250 copies. Our copy is no. 80 and is sewn and bound in an early fifteenth-century-type binding, oak boards and quarter brown leather, contained in a quarter-leather and blue, linen-covered box.
The Ellesmere Chaucer is a beautiful and elaborately decorated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales created between 1400 and 1410. The manuscript is in excellent condition partly because it was undisturbed for about three centuries in the library of Sir Thomas Egerton (later Baron Ellesmere) and his family. The binding dates from 1995, when the manuscript was conserved and rebound to meet modern standards of preservation.
(https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/2838/)
Located in the Rare Books collection {PR1866 .W76 1995a}
-
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}
-
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}
-
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}
