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Jun 07, 2021 Book of the Week — Life in the Far West

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Apart from the feeling of loneliness which any one in my situation must naturally have experienced, surrounded by stupendous works of nature, which in all their solitary grandeur frowned upon me, and sinking into utter insignificance the miserable mortal who crept beneath their shadow; still...

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Oct 13, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Travelers: Forty Years of Books To Go

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"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...

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Jul 10, 2017 Rare Books Goes to Geneva!

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“A seemingly idyllic, rarely seen American past comes to life like a fairy tale — some land before time, before film, before death.”...

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Oct 26, 2016 Book of the Week — The Temperamental Rose

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A Black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, I will someday speak of your unseen births: A, black corset bristling with glittering flies That buzz around cruel smells, Gulfs of shadow; E, innocent vapours and tents, Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, frissons of an inflorescence; I, crimsons,...

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