"Mientras más de arte tiene un oficio más caballero hace al artesano.” “The more artistic a craft, the richer the craftsperson.” — José Martí Como Angel Cierto Digdora Alonso Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía (Colección de San Juan), 1987 PQ7390 A429 C66 1987 Limited edition of 200 copies In 1985, Alfredo Zaldívar gained access...
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.” ― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Melcher Hedloffs sonst Schütze=Melcher genannt… verübete und begangene Mord=Thaten. Melchior Hedloff (1606-1654) Wrocław (Breslau), G. Gründer at the Baumann Printing Shop for K. Klosemann 1654 Over the...
“OK is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier. In the next 200 years all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know...
Le Mat (The Fool) The flesh, the sensitive life, the spirit in search of experience — and atonement. A young man, breathing and savoring the freshness of the morning of life. The "dreamer" that is a part of every creative person. Lithographed on Linweave L'Aiglon. Color: Flame....
"Printing is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement" — Roy Trewin Porte Roy Trewin Porte was born on May 8, 1876 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. When he was just five years old he moved to the states with his widowed mother, settling in Casselton, North Dakota. Porte’s mother likely did...
“If a scholar only stays in one place, he will be blocked by one small river and become narrow-minded and ignorant. He must travel everywhere to see human affairs, the social customs of the north and the south, mountains and rivers, and to broaden his...
The Rare Books Department welcomes you all back to the J. Willard Marriott Library, and invites you to visit our latest exhibition, Roar of Distant Breakers, now on display in the Special Collections Gallery on level four. This exhibition was curated by Luise Poulton, the former Managing...
We have amongst our men, a great variety of dispositions. Some who have not been accustomed to the kind of life they are to lead in future, look forward to it with eager delight, and talk of stirring incidents and hair-breadth ‘scapes. Others who are...
Pioneers, for whom history was walking through dead grass, and the main things that happened were miles and the time of day – Traveling Through the Dark William Stafford (1914-1993) New York: Harper & Row, 1962 PS3537 T143 T7 1962 Poet William Stafford was born and raised in Kansas,...
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row John Steinbeck (1902-1968) New York: The Viking Press, 1945 First edition, second state PS3537 T3234 C3 1945 Cannery Row is a Depression-era...