Jun 14, 2022 Book of the Week — Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa…

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May 22, 2021 In Memoriam — Marie Christensen Dern (October 17, 1936-May 22, 2020)

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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...

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Sep 16, 2019 Harvest: An Homage to Demeter and Persephone — Two Books and a Stray Sonnet Sequence

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At last the Father of the Gods sent Hermes to fetch Persephone back to earth, on condition that she had eaten nothing while in the kingdom of Pluto. Alas that very day she had tasted six seeds of a pomegranate...

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Jan 31, 2019 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment, Part D: “…of the holy found rest through him.”

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(san)ctoru(m) requieverunt per eu(m). Ps. D(omi)ne...

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Jun 14, 2018 A Recipe for Disaster

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“At two P.M we set sail, and the men voluntarily launched out to make a traverse of fifteen miles across Melville Sound, before a strong wind and heavy sea. The privation of food, under which our voyagers were then laboring, absorbed every other terror; otherwise...

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Feb 26, 2018 Books of the Week — Sara Langworthy

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Everything Speaks In Its Own Way Sara Langworthy 2003 N7433.4 L355 E8 2003 Printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum on blotters using a Vandercook press. Drum leaf binding. Edition of twenty copies. Rare Books copy is no. 14, signed by the author/bookmaker. New Patterns in Old Style Sara Langworthy Oxford, IA: Sara...

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Nov 06, 2017 Autumn’s End

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“…yours until the final ghosts from darkened fires rise like filaments on the low blue-grey edge of light and air, to shine like music must, momentarily, to the blind.” Autumn’s End Christopher Buckley Lagniappe Press, 1992 PS3552 U339 A98 1992   Printed in October 1992 with 12 point Dante. The poem first appeared in “Hubbub,” Fall 1992....

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May 18, 2017 Book of the Week — Remember the Light

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“Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer’s cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.” — Buddha Shakyamuni REMEMBER THE LIGHT Mary Risala Laird Quelquefois Press, 2007 Artist’s statement in an email to the curator:...

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Mar 14, 2016 Book of the Week — Theatro del mundo y de el tiempo…

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THEATRO DEL MUNDO Y DE EL TIEMP… Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Impresso en Granada en las casas de autor, por su industria, y a su costa por Sebastian Munoz, impressor de libros ano 1607 First published in Venice in 1588 as Theatrum mundi, et temporis, this book...

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