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Book collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

RBM. No.2/Fall., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38338-40237
Scope and Contents

Stephen Ennis contributes an essay entitled, "In the Author's hand: Artifacts of Origin and Twentieth-Century Reading Practice," in which he comments on the importance of original manuscripts as a source of literary artistic inspiration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Remarks on the Disorders of Literary Men or An Inquiry into the Means of Preventing the Evils Usually Incident to Sedentary and Studious Habits (Facsimile) / Greenwood, Francis William Pitt., 1974

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Identifier: CC-44305-46436
Scope and Contents

This is a facsimile of the book first published in 1825 by Cummings, Hilliard, & Co, Boston, Massachusetts. The facsimile was commisioned by Chandler Robbins. A particularly noteworthy section of this book deals with the beneficial effects of moderate exercise in literary men prone to avoid it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Serial Publications: Essential Parts of the 19th Century Imagination: From the Collections of Robert H. Jackson / Jackson, Robert H.., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-43331-45390
Scope and Contents

This is an annotated biography from a friend who is a book collector of novels that were published as serial parts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Surplus Value Books, Catalogue Number 13 / Moody, Rick., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-42953-44997
Scope and Contents

The author provides a story line in the annotations to made-up books dealing with his infatuation with a character named Anna Feldman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell / De Hamel, Christopher ; Morris W., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-39051-40989
Scope and Contents

In this lecture, de Hamel describe the life of Cockerell, an outstanding collector and dealer of ancient manuscripts and incunabula through the first half of the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Taking Up a Collection / Frank, Peter; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Apollinaire G; Clavin H; Kolar J; DeCampos A; Dohl R; Phillips T; Kliun I; Popova L., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-39558-41516
Scope and Contents

This is an essay in a medical magazine that describes the beginnings of the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Future of the National Art Library / Ilminster, Lord Armstrong of., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-37873-39753
Scope and Contents

This is a pamphlet concerning the Victoria and Albert Museum's resposibility towards the documentation of the history of art and design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Pleasures of Being a Scholar-Collector / Tanselle, G. Thomas., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44534-46684
Scope and Contents

In this auto-biographical speech given at the Grolier Club, the author mentions great bookshops that he visited including Leary's in Philadelphia. This was a favorite hang-up for Marvin Sackner when he was a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Revolt of the Bees: Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared / Levy, Aaron, editor ; Squire, Thaddeus, editor ; Arakawa ; Gins M., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46568-49297
Scope and Contents

This book was published as a companion work for the exhibition in the Rare Book Room of the Van Pelt Library. It proposes "A new culture of memory and archiving in the true spirit of the beehive." Anthony Grafton's essay "The Commonplace Bee; A Celebration" describes through historical commonplace books "how early modern playwrights and poets, scholars and scientists, ladies and schoolboys went about the vital task of mastering and using books - at a time when books were the most powerful source of knowledge about life, the universe and everything." The DVD "In which the thinking man finds himself" was produced by Aaron Levy and explores an archive in disarray in historic Founder's Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

The Written Word and the Printed Page / Phillips, Tom., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44177-46303
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips designed the 50 pence coin set into the perforation of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Torch Press Book Shop Records

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0167
Abstract

The Torch Press Bookshop was started by Luther Brewer in 1909, and sold books at a storefront in Cedar Rapids as well as to mail-order patrons until 1917.

Dates: 1908-1915

Wuz. No.1/Feb / Apollinaire G ; Warhol A ; Maffei G., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42296-44306
Scope and Contents

Laura Fresco Zannini documents the publications of Apollinaire's "Le Poete Assassine." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002