Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....
“He is a traitor to his race, who does not feel that all within the circle of humanity are his brothers and sisters — that their wrongs are his wrongs, and that his cup is dashed with the bitterness which overflows from theirs. While a...
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...
HE KAINE DIATHEKE, NOVUM TESTAMENTUM Wigorniae, Massachusettensi: excudebat Isaias Thomas, Jun, 1800 Editio Prima Americana This is the first American printing of the Greek New Testament, considered a milestone in American printing history. Isaiah Thomas’ printing shop was dubbed “the sedition factory,” during the American Revolution. Thomas moved his...
“In every country whatever, he who violates a woman is a monster.” The Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser Nathaniel Willis, publisher Boston, MA: Powars and Willis, 1776 v. 30: no. 1852 (1798: Dec. 17-20) AN2 A2 I49 Miscellany —————– For The Chronicle To the virtuous Females in the United States “In every country whatever, he...
“My sakes alive — the turkey is burnt on one side, and the kettles have biled over so the pies I put to warm are all ashes!” Aunt Jo’s Scrap-bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882 First edition PS1017 A8 1882 “Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag” is...
“Look at me! I’m the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of...
“…that sacred blessing of Liberty, without which man is a beast, and government a curse” “No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defence of the state…such are a...
“I think seeing first editions especially, and seeing them in the way that they would have come out is really powerful because then you kind of get to experience it in the way similar to someone would during that time.” — Lyuba Basin, Curator, Rare...