24 Jul 175 Years Ago Today — Journey of the Utah Pioneers

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"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...

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19 Jul Rare Books Presents: Hemingway Days

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction works between 1926 and his death in 1961. In celebration of this year’s...

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11 Jul Rare Books Goes On Vacation!

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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...

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05 Jul Book of the Week — Cascadia

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“This book is a remembrance of what was lost, an appreciation of what is left, and a celebration of what could be. Forests are not eternal. For all their solemn stillness, they constantly change, evolve, die, and regrow. But they are persistent, and they always...

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27 Jun Now on Display! Printing Through the Pandemic

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Printing Through the Pandemic J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah Levels 1 & 4 June 24 - September 23, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. Delirium Philip Zimmermann Tucson, AZ: Spaceheater Editions, 2020 N7433.4 Z55 D45 2020 In early March 2020, under orders to evacuate the print shop, Emily...

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21 Jun Book of the Week — Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers

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"Yet he who praises Dr. Franklin for mere ability, praises him for that quality of his mind, which stands lowest in his own esteem. Reader, whoever you are, and how much soever you think you hate him, know that this great man loves you enough to wish...

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14 Jun Book of the Week — Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa…

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Memorie di Matilda La Gran Contessa...

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07 Jun Rare Books Virtual Lecture — The New Art of Making Books

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The Rare Books Department invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, The New Art of Making Books Smoke Amy Pirkle Tuscaloosa, AL: Perkolator Press, 2008 N7433.4 P58 S5 2008 If this is your first introduction into the world of artists’ books you may find yourself at times stumbling over definitions....

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30 May Book of the Week — The Wild Gardens of Old California

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“On mesa and valley floor and treeless loma, the mantle of vivid green is overlaid riotously with color — the orange of California poppies; the blue and lavender of sturdy lupines and lolling wild heliotrope; the mauve of owl’s clover; the pale gold of sun-cups...

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16 May Book of the Week — New Observations Concerning the Unicorn

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  De unicornu observationes novae Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) Second edition edited by Caspar Bartholin Amsterdam: apud JHenr. Wetstenium, 1678 For thousands of years, in literature as well as in art, the unicorn has been depicted as a white horse-like animal with a long straight horn made up of spiraling grooves...

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