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Lord of the Rings Pt. 1. The fellowship of the ring.
Pt. 2. The two towers.
Pt. 3. The return of the king.
Printed in 1963, this is the 13th impression of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1954 edition. It was purchased for the Library's 2 millionth volume celebration as part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Collection.
Located in the Science Fiction Writers of America collection (SFWA) {PR6039.O32 L6 1954a}
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Tobin Collection The James D. Tobin Collection consists of materials on Japanese woodblock prints from about 1890, particularly print artists of the late Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods. Included in this collection are rare exhibition catalogs and brochures, extensive research notes, photographs, books about prints, correspondence, and conference recordings.
Items are located in the Tobin Collection
*Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. {NE1323 .M461992A}
*Farmhouse" (1926) - Contemporary Japanese Wood-block Prints Vol. 3 1952-1984 {NE59.7.T62 C646 1952a}
*A Catalog of an Exhibition of Wood-block Prints of the Yoshida Family. {NE1325.Y6 C373 1953a}
*Colour Print Collection: 35 mm colour slides for talks re the history of wood-block prints in Japan. {NE59.7.T62 C656 1971a}
*[Drawings and papers] of Charles Bartlett. Wood-engraving "Isogo" {NE1112.B38 B3741915A}
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The Tattoo Dictionary : an A-Z guide to choosing your tattoo The Tattoo Collection is the newest collection in Rare Books and Special Collections
Located in the Tattoo Collection {GT2345 .A395 2016a}
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Vincent Starrett Collection Vincent Starrett (1886-1974) was a book collector, author, bibliographer, and a Sherlock Holmes scholar. He has been referred to as part of Chicago's "literary renaissance.” It has been said that Starrett's bibliographies on authors such as Arthur Machen, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ambrose Bierce revived their popularity.
He was a crime reporter, feature writer, political analyst, and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News until his first novel, Seaports in the Moon (1928) was published. He also wrote a weekly column called "Books Alive" in the Chicago Tribune for 25 years, influencing the reading habits of millions.
One of his greatest claims to fame was his fascination with and knowledge of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
(https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/844)
Items are located in the Vincent Starrett Collection
* Seaports in the Moon: a fantasia on romantic themes. by Vincent Starrett. {PS3537.T246 S41928}
*Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliography. by Vincent Starrett. {PS1097.Z5 S725}
*"In re: Sherlock Holmes"; Adventures of Solar Pons. by August Derleth (signed); forward by Vincent Starrett. {PS3507.E69 I5}
*Sherlockiana Vol. 1: Three Poems. by Vincent Starrett. (signed) {PR4624 .B547 1934a}
*Born in a Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence. by Vincet Starrett. {PS3537.T246 Z5}
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Science Fiction Magazines Science Fiction magazines appeared in the 1920s. Some came and went, some changed titles, editors, and/or publishers, and the rest hung on by a thread.
Rare Books and Special Collections holds many of the titles published throughout the ten decades.
Items are part of the SFWA Collection
*Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 1 (April 1926) {PS648.S3 A5a}
*Galaxy Science Fiction Vol. 25 No. 6 (August 1967) {PS648.S3 G332a}
*Analog Astounding Science Fact & Fiction - Vol. 65 No. 1 ( March 1960) {PS648.S3 A77a}
*Asimov's Science Fiction - Vol. 43 No. 11/12 (Nov./Dec. 2019) {PS648.S3 I8a}
*The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Vol. 84 No. 1 (January 1993) {AP2 .M2344}
*Locus Vol. 85 No. 3 (September 2020) {PN3433 .L63a}
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Radical Pamphlets Collection The Radical Pamphlets Collection includes American publications from 1880 to 1980 by or about the radical labor movement, socialists, communists, the radical right, and other movements occurring during that time.
Titles from the Radical Pamphlets Collection:
*SDS New Left Notes {LH1.A2 S73a}
*The Universities and the Ruling Class: how wealth puts knowledge in its pocket {LC1085.2 .H676 1969za}
*Liberation {BF1995 .L4a}
*Union Committeemen and Wildcat Strikes {HD5325.A8 G533 1971a}
*By the People {KF4742.3 .A54 1962a}
*Black Workers and the Class Struggle {HD6490.R2 P763 1972a}
*Bolshevism and the Workers {HD8526 .B657 1920a}
*Worker-student action committees, France, May '68 {HD8437.P37 G73 1970a}
*The Good Life {HX653 .R53 1973a}
*Soviet "Dumping" and "Forced Labor" {HF2166 .B355 1931a}
*The Meaning of Social-Fascism: its historical and theoretical background {JC481 .B769 1933a}
*Walden Two - B.F. Skinner {PS3537.K527 W3 1962a}
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Private Press Collection The Private Press Collection is a growing collection of material issued by private presses, particularly in the Midwest. The works held in the collection demonstrate examples of fine printing, fine binding, creative book making, artists' books, or literary works selected for private publication.
Titles located in the Private Press Collection:
*Pride, Prejudice, Passion : Whirlwind Romance. (2011).
Created by Karen Hanmer, book artist, autographer.
Limited edition of 3 copies. { N7433.4.H365 P75 2011a}
*The Sea Around Us. (1980).
Creators Rachel Carson and illustrator Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Limited Editions Club. "Two thousand copies signed by the photographer." Library has no. 1277. {GC21 .C3 1980a}
*Octopus. (1992, c1988).
Creators Elizabeth McDevitt and Julie Chen.
Flying Fish Press. "Published in a limited edition of 100 copies" -- Inside of clamshell. "Box made by Sandy Tilcock" Library has no.: 80. {PS3563.C3585 O38 1992a}
*The ABCs of Baker Street : a guide to the Holmsian habitat. (1983).
Creators Dee Snyder and John Bennett Shaw. Miniature book.
Black Cat Press. "One of 249 copies." {PR4624 .S593 1983a}
*The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. (1953).
Creators William Shakespeare, Ivor J. Brown, and Herbert Farjeon.
Nonesuch Press. {PR2754 .F32 1953a}
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Fred Saberhagen Papers The Fred Saberhagen Papers consists of printed (paper-based) and handwritten edited manuscripts (mostly of his novels), a small amount of short stories, correspondence associated with those materials, and some miscellaneous materials.
The Fred Saberhagen Papers are part of the Manuscripts Collection which contains papers from various science fiction authors.
Berserker's Planet (1973) - original edited manuscript and personal notes.
For more information and detailed holdings go to https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/275
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Willard Motley Papers Willard Motley was an African-American writer who was part of the Chicago Renaissance.
The collection of the Northern Illinois University Libraries is the most extensive collection anywhere of the diaries, manuscripts, photographs, notes, clippings, and books of the famous naturalist Chicago writer.
*Diaries dealing with story, Knock On Any Door, April 21 - June 3, 1947.
*Diary - Book XI - Horizon Chasing on a Bicycle - June/July 1930.
For more information and detailed holdings go to https://archives.lib.niu.edu/repositories/2/resources/662
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Medieval Manuscript Leaves Books during the medieval period were typically made of vellum (also called parchment), or, occasionally, paper. "The production of books was a collaborative enterprise involving co-operation between different crafts: parchment-maker, scribe, illuminator, and binder, together with, in many cases, a bookdealer who took orders from clients and oversaw the making of the final article."
Before 1200, books were generally produced in monasteries. However, as universities in cities like Paris, Bologna and Oxford began to grow, the demand for books outgrew the abilities of the monasteries to produce them, and lay people stepped in to fill the gap. By 1400, most manuscripts were not produced in monastery scriptoria, but by professional book workers.
*Gospel Lectionaire Leaf, Italy, 1150 A.D.,
*Leaf from a Breviary, Northern France, 1400,
*Prayerbook Leaf [Hildesheim], Germany, 1524.
Items located in the Manuscripts Collection {ND3355 .C655 1150a}
