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Fifty Works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Edited by Kathryn James; With contributions by Raymond Clemens, Kathryn James, Nancy Kuhl, George Miles, Kevin Repp, Edwin C. Schroeder, and Timothy Young
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Format: PB-with FlapsPrice: $25.00
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.
Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Kathryn James is Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Publication Date: October 22, 2013
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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