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...
May 22, 2021 In Memoriam — Marie Christensen Dern (October 17, 1936-May 22, 2020)
Last year, on May 22, Rare Books lost our dear friend, Marie Christensen Dern. On that day, like the rest of the world, we were sheltering in place. We were locked out of our office, and more disorientingly, out of the Rare Books Vault. We...
Dec 03, 2018 Book of the Week — Prayers Written at Vailima
"Deliver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on each in his deficiency; let him not be cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary." -- Robert Louis Stevenson Prayers Written at...
Mar 08, 2018 Inanna: from the great above she set her mind to the great below
“From the great above she opened her ears to the great below, The goddess, from the great above she opened her ears to the great below” Inanna: from the great above she set her mind to the great below Jana Lee Pullman Madison: Western Slope Press, 1989 PS3566 U55 I63 1989 Printed on...
Jan 04, 2017 Book of the Week — Colours of Persia
Although I have no beauty, colour & perfume Am I not after all the grass of His garden?” — Saadi COLOURS OF PERSIA: PERCEPTIONS, ACCOUNTS… Susan Allix (b. 1943) London, 2007 N7433.4 A57 C65 2007 From the artist: “The text is arranged around the headings of five cities – Tehran, Mashad, Yazd,...