Feb 09, 2022 Book of the Week — Random Passions
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...
Feb 07, 2022 Book of the Week — Furrows
"In the furrows of the world the paths of planting the hoe-trails of our people WE can only be do from what we are...
Jan 31, 2022 Book of the Week — Critical Opalescence
Critical Opalescence Alisa Golden Berkeley, CA: Never Mind the Press, 2004 N7433.4 G65 C75 2004 Critical Opalescence is a 2004 Artists’ book by Alisa Golden. The "Art By Mail" subscription book consists of three, letter-pressed pamphlets themed around an unstable form of water — the phenomenon from which the...
Jan 27, 2022 Book of the Week — Star of Ashes
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Jan 18, 2022 Book of the Week — La Mano dell’Uomo
"My hand now raises the glass, hoping for reasonably happy times, and toasts to your health and ours, and signs...
Jan 10, 2022 Book of the Week — Polygraphice…
"Polygraphice is an art, so much imitating Nature, as that by proportional lines with answerable Colours, it teacheth to represent to the life (and that in plano) the forms of all corporeal things, with their respective passions." Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting,...
Jan 03, 2022 Book of the Week — Early Rising
No doubt it is "the early bird that catches the worm." But, as the pillow-loving boy said to his father, "it is the early worm that gets caught." Early Rising, Or It is the early worm that gets caught William Mathews San Francisco, CA: The Cloister Press, 1938 PS2368 M8...
Dec 27, 2021 Book of the Week — Nature Abhors
"Evening snow starts to fall outside. It starts as large fluffy flakes. Day after day snow falls, week after week. Will it never end? The sidewalks become like narrow alleyways. For every snowflake there is regret: for words never said, for trips made and not...
Dec 20, 2021 Book of the Week — Holiday Party Casseroles
"Casserole cooking is easy as pie. A party is born in the wink of an eye." Holiday Party Casseroles Edna Beilenson Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956 TX693 B45 1956 At the age of twenty-two, Peter Beilenson set up a small press in the basement of his father’s home...
Dec 13, 2021 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — Historyes of English
The Rare Books Department invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, Historyes of English. Das Buch von Lindisfarne Lucerne: Faksimile Verlag Luzern, 2002 ND3359 L5 L56 2002 Early manuscripts from western Europe can help us trace the histories of the English language. From these illuminated pages, we can...