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...
"Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!" -- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. Since 1977 they have worked both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering...
"'Why don't we just stay poor,' said Mother, 'we're good at that.' 'Well alright, if that's what you want, but I met this guy who raises baby pigs, and he...
“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...