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Book collecting

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Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

Memoirs of a Book Snake / Meyer, David ; Moore AD., 2001

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Identifier: CC-42675-44693
Scope and Contents

This is a book scout's memoir of forty years of seeking and saving old books. He mentions a friend of the Sackners, Bill Duprist, who was married for a brief period to Maggie, a South Miami bookdealer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Modern German Book Design, 1959

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Identifier: CC-31853-33375
Scope and Contents

This exhibition toured the USA throughout 1959. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

No.19 / Privat: L'Art de Voir ; Apollinaire G ; Aragon L ; Baudelaire C ; Cendrars B ; Desnos R ; Eluard P ; Butor M ; Isou I ; Jacob M ; Jarry A ; Joyce J ; Mallarme S ; Ray M ; Queneau R ; Lurcat J., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33997-35673
Scope and Contents

Contains a listing of the works of Michel Butor with illlustrations by many artists including Julius Baltazar, Jean Cortot, Bertrand Dorny and Anne Walker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.20 / Privat: L'Art de Voir ; Breton A ; Cendrars B ; Char R ; Eluard P ; Jarry A ; Paz O., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33937-35609
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.21 / Privat: L'Art de Voir ; Apollinaire G ; Aragon L ; Baudelaire C ; Cendrars B ; Char R ; Chernikov I ; Eluard P ; Marinetti FT ; Jarry A ; Mallarme S ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Schwitters K., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34451-36148
Scope and Contents

Includes a large section on works by George Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.22 / Privat: L'Art de Voir ; Aragon L ; Bryen C ; Cendrars B ; Cocteau J ; Desnos R ; Duchamp M ; Eluard P ; Epstein J ; Jacob M ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Soupault P ; Valery P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43871-45971
Scope and Contents

Includes a large section on works by George Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.92: Modern Literature / Lopez, Ken ; Beckett S ; Burroughs WS ; Johnson R ; Ondaatje M ; Patchen K., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30632-32072
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.103: Modern Literature / Lopez, Ken ; Bowles P ; Burroughs WS ; Gass W ; Ginsberg A ; Ondaatje M ; Paz O., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32620-34203
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.285: Books about Books / Oak Knoll Books ; Rosenbach ASW ; Dante ; Avrin L ; Dali S ; Ferlinghetti L ; Artmann HC ; Yeats WB., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47531-68539
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists a large number of books from the Limited Editions Club. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.286: Books about Books / Oak Knoll Books., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48725-69758
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists a large number of books from the Limited Editions Club and Matrix. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

No.300: The Simon Nowell-Smith Collection / Rota, Bertram ; Yeats WB ; Morris W., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42049-44050
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

On Libraries / Phillips, Tom., 1986

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Identifier: CC-39168-41112
Scope and Contents

This essay was originally written for the Art Librarians Journal v.11 no.3, 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Cilture / Basbanes, Nicholas A. ; Eco U., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37776-39655
Scope and Contents Publishers Weekly review. "A sequel of sorts to Basbanes's earlier A Gentle Madness (on the manic nature of bookselling and book-collecting), this copious volume takes its title from the formidable lions guarding the entrance to the main branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Opening with the great libraries of the past, from Alexandria to Pergamum and Glastonbury, Basbanes, former literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram, segues into such venerable active libraries as those at the Vatican, Wolfenbuttel and the universities of Durham, Leiden and Oxford. He visits with shrewd, sometimes eccentric book dealers who happily recount tales of bygone bibliophiles, and llustrates a variety of collections, from illuminated medieval manuscripts to volumes more valuable for who owned them than for binding or content. "I absolutely insist on keeping the same crummy look," a bookshop owner tells him proudly. "Every time I make the place too neat,...
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

People of the Book / Brooks, Geraldine., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48297-69322
Scope and Contents Brooks has written a fictionalized version of the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah. It traces the illuminated Hebrew manuscsript created in 15th century Spain to Venice in 1690 to Bosnia during WW II through the life of a contemporary Australian book conservationist. The author illuminates the essential historic details of the book with the fascinating fictional characters involved in the plot.Publishers Weekly: "Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book, Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. The Sarajevo Haggadah, which disappeared during the...
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Pierre Beres, Tenacious Book Collector, Dies at 95 / Grimes, William., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48424-69451
Scope and Contents

Beres owned a bookshop in Paris; the Sackners purchased a few books from him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

qbdp: airlight earthrun waterway. No.121/Nov / Geof Huth., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62659-48786
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

RBM. No.1., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36296-38086
Scope and Contents

Kenneth W. Rendell contributes an essay, "The Future of the Manuscript and Rare Book Business" that includes bookselling through private dealers, auction and the internet. Eric Holzenberg presents an in-depth description of "Second-hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

RBM. No.1 / Traister D., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34455-36152
Scope and Contents

Werner Gundersheimer contributed an essay, "Against the Grain," in which he discussed the changing role of the research library. He indicated that electronic surrogates should serve "students not as the end source but, rather, as first exposure....the new media also provide efficient means for introducing students to different formats - maps, manuscripts, painting and sculpture, letters, diaries, account books." Daniel Traister contributed a polemic essay, "Is There a Future for Special Collections? And should there Be?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

RBM. No1/Spr., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39158-41102
Scope and Contents

Marvin Tayor contributes an essay "I'll Be Your Mirror, Reflect What You Are : Postmodern Documentation and the Downtown New York Scene from 1975 to the Present." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

RBM. No.2., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35176-36910
Scope and Contents

David Carr contributes an inciteful essay, "In the Contexts of the Possible: Libraries and Museums as Incendiary Cultural Institutions." In it he challenges the thoughtful person to reimagine our cultural collections and programs which have to do as much for the future as for the past. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

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