A frequent task here in the Rare Book office at the Marriott Library is cataloging and archiving new books that have been donated or acquired. It is common for me to see all the new books before they get incorporated into the book "vault" and...
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction works between 1926 and his death in 1961. In celebration of this year’s...
Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Dissent A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 18 through June 17, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. This exhibition was originally curated in the summer of 2020 — amid...
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." — Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel Tailleurs Lenitis Paris: Tailleurs Lenitis, 1939 TT555 T35 1939 Prior to the 1830s, the word “tweed”...
from California: The Land of the Sun, 1914, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) We had not gone far from this village when the fog cleared off, and we enjoyed the delightful prospect of the ocean, the object of all our labours, the reward of all our anxieties....
“We prefer crude vigor to polished banality.” from Anvil, Jack Conroy, 1933 In recognition of Banned Books Week, Rare Books invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, "Radical!" - an accompaniment to our latest digital exhibition. from Songs of the Workers; On the Road, In the Jungles, and...
The literature of politics is multifaceted, filled with various genres that range from poetry to pamphlets, and novels to newscasts. Today, new methods of disseminating literature allow voices from all walks of life to be heard on major digital platforms. However, a century ago, these...
He only earns both freedom and existence Who must reconquer them each day.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust FAUST Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Tolz: Bremer Press, 1920 PT1916 A1 1920 Printed using a proprietary type (an Antiqua) designed for Bremer Press by the director of the press, Dr. Willy Wiegand....