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Book collecting

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:

Firsts. No.5., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34044-35722
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mainly with the works of Upton Sinclair. Elizabeth Felicetti contributed an essay, "A Coming-of-Age Collection," in which she includes Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.5/May., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33004-34625
Scope and Contents

Includes essays on western landscape photographers, collecting Jim Harrison and the art of Russell Chatham. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.6., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30006-31398
Scope and Contents

Features detective stories and writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Firsts. No.6., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34309-36004
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mainly with the works of Ellery Queen, whose identity was actually the writing partners Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.7., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32751-34340
Scope and Contents

Includes essays on post-colonial Indian literature and Victorian women novelists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.7., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34470-36167
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mainly with the works of Robert C. Howard, author of "Conan the Barbarian" among other pulp fiction novels. An essay by editor Robin H. smiley describes the restoration of a first edition copy of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.7-8., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30373-31788
Scope and Contents

Features the work of Mark Twain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Firsts. No.9., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34693-36396
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mainly with collecting the works of James Thurber and Trash Collecting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Firsts. No.9., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33034-34656
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the books by Henry David Thoreau. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.10., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33190-34820
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with science fiction and fantasy. Robin Smiley contributes an essay "The Internet Follies Hit the Road of Revisiting the Caveat Emptorium." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Firsts. No.11 / Danielewski M., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35079-36807
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mainly with collecting works of Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett. A review and complete publication details of "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski are featured in the Update: Collectible Books section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Firsts: Science Fiction and Fantasy Issue. No.10., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31075-32540
Scope and Contents

Contains an essay on collecting Edgar Allan Poe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Henry E. Huntington's Library of Libraries / Dickenson, Donald C.., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16198-16541
Scope and Contents

Definitive biography of Henry Huntington, the greatest American book collector of the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Henry Edwards Huntington: His Life and His Collections / Spurgeon, Selena A.., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02547-2589
Scope and Contents

The book provides a biography of Huntington, one of the greatest book collectors of the 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Hubert's Freaks / Gibson, Gregory ; Arbus D., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47815-68835
Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: From the late 1950s until her death in 1971, renowned photographer Diane Arbus took pictures of oddball performers at the now-forgotten Hubert's Museum, a typical freak show in New York City's seedy Times Square. One frequent subject was Charlie Lucas, first a freak himself, later an inside talker. In 2003, Bob Langmuir, an anxiety-ridden, pill-popping, obsessive antiquarian book dealer from Philadelphia, unearthed a collection of photographs and memorabilia, including Lucas's journals and what he thought were Arbus's photos. This trove of genuine American kookiness came to dominate his life. Following Langmuir's quest"”from the slums of Philadelphia to the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art"”as he gathered, priced and ultimately came to understand this collection, author Gibson (Gone Boy: A Walkabout), himself an antiquarian book dealer, effortlessly twists these strands together with an emotional wallop. His toil in Hubert's vineyard, Gibson writes of...
Dates: 2008

Hubert's Freaks / Gibson, Gregory ; Arbus D., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-47816-68836
Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: From the late 1950s until her death in 1971, renowned photographer Diane Arbus took pictures of oddball performers at the now-forgotten Hubert's Museum, a typical freak show in New York City's seedy Times Square. One frequent subject was Charlie Lucas, first a freak himself, later an inside talker. In 2003, Bob Langmuir, an anxiety-ridden, pill-popping, obsessive antiquarian book dealer from Philadelphia, unearthed a collection of photographs and memorabilia, including Lucas's journals and what he thought were Arbus's photos. This trove of genuine American kookiness came to dominate his life. Following Langmuir's quest"”from the slums of Philadelphia to the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art"”as he gathered, priced and ultimately came to understand this collection, author Gibson (Gone Boy: A Walkabout), himself an antiquarian book dealer, effortlessly twists these strands together with an emotional wallop. His toil in Hubert's vineyard, Gibson writes of...
Dates: 2008

John Martin M.D. Ph.D. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0501
Abstract

Neurosurgeon and book collector specializing in rare medical books. These papers primarily concern Dr. Martin's association with the University of Iowa. The establishment of the John Martin Rare Book Room and the donation of his collection of rare medical books is well documented with correspondence, clippings, brochures, etc. Some autobiographical sketches are included along with records of Dr. Martin's military service.

Dates: 1926-2000