Sentences with phrase «rare book collection»

I did a small collection of illustrated title pages for the rare book collection at the University of Denver Westminster Law Library when I was in library school.

Piano designed a «centripetal» building, partially buried underground in order to cope with the tight space available for the expansion and «to build a sort of underground vault in which to house the library's rare book collection.

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Princeton alum bequeaths rare book collection worth $ 300 million to the university.

Spencer is given a tour of his school's incredibly valuable rare book collection and describes it all to Warren.

A recent gift of the private printing of the Lena Richard Cook Book expands the growing rare book collection.

«In a sense, this forgotten fish has been hiding in plain sight in this old monograph but that monograph is so rare that it now resides only in rare book collections of a few large museums,» Stewart said.

Abrahamson's manner tells us all we need to know about why his character, an affluent college student, would be tempted into robbing a University's rare books collection.

I have produced many artist books of my poetry and these form part of the rare book collections in state, national and university libraries in Australia.

In his Melbourne talk and essay on collection illustrated law books, Mike lists many institutional reasons to enrich our rare book collections with images of the law, but I particularly like this one from Mike: «Ultimately, this sort of collecting promotes a sense of wonder and play, things that can be in short supply in today's world.

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I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

When they did write books, which was comparatively rare, they wrote mostly what we would call trade books» biographies, collections of essays, etc.» which, even if somewhat technical at times, were still accessible to a general readership.

Over 200 guests are expected to attend and will help to raise funds for children's programs in all 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries and the Library's Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Library System has more than three million items in its collection of books, periodicals, rare publications and documents, DVDs, CDs and e-content materials.

The Library Foundation of Buffalo & Erie County and its independent Board of Trustees manages the Library's endowment funds under the auspices of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and supports special projects within the Library's Strategic Plan with a particular focus on Rare Books & Special Collections.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3.2 million materials such as books, magazines, eBooks, CDs, DVDs and rare materials including popular, diverse and specialized collections which can be found throughout its 37 libraries and the Library on Wheels Bookmobile.

Rare or unique local history or genealogy materials may be added to the Rare Book Room collection.

Shop our extensive collection of fine first editions at Raptis Rare Books.

Release date: June 1 Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson Directed by: Bart Layton (The Imposter) Why we're excited: This ripped - from - the - headlines heist film mixes narrative storytelling with documentary - style interviews of the actual young men who plotted to steal valuable rare books from the special collection of a Kentucky university's library.

His latest offering, The Ninth Gate, tells the tale of Corso (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dead Man), an unscrupulous rare book dealer who is hired by a wealthy businessman to complete his collection of satanic books by finding out if the crown jewel of his collection, «The Nine Gates and the Kingdom of Shadows», is authentic.

He wants to convince this heiress to marry him, giving him all of the fortune he believes falsely acquired by the Uncle (he is a rare book collector, forging his collection to sell to unwitting buyers), and then place her in a madhouse, getting rid of any evidence of the forced marriage.

A rare book from Gutman's special collections called The Freedman's Spelling - Book, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Cultbook from Gutman's special collections called The Freedman's Spelling - Book, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and CultBook, published in 1866, will be showcased at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This plan is derailed by three occurrences: thirty - six - year - old sales representative for Knightley Press, Amelia Loman makes her first visit to Island Books to present the publisher's Winter List (and is treated rather shabbily by A.J.); A.J.'s escape valve, a rare and valuable edition of Tamerlane, a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, is stolen; and a bright two - year - old girl named Maya is left in his bookstore.

The library owns some rare collections of manuscripts, maps, posters, special books, photographs, and more, and will continue to make these available.

The collection is regarded as world heritage, being one of the finest private collections of rare books in the world.

When Amy Clampitt's first collection, The Kingfisher, was published, it was hailed as that rare first book that «signals a major poet in full bloom» (Los Angeles Times).

I've used Bound Book Scanning to digitize a dozen rare books in my collection.

Their special collection of rare and collectible books features unique finds such as signed, first editions and out of print books.

Founded in 1995, Blue Bicycle Books (then Boomer's Books) is a local bookstore located in Charleston, South Carolina that has over 50,000 volumes, including a large and comprehensive collection of used, rare and new Charleston material.

At the center of the Special Collections department was the Amanda Devereaux Rare Books Room, a monument to the late bibliophile in which her greatest treasures were permanently displayed.

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Shop our extensive collection of fine first editions at Raptis Rare Books.

When you have a variety of authors in one collection with different styles of writing, it would be rare for a reader to love all the books equally.

The South Carolina Room houses our rare book and manuscript collections, some of which date back hundreds of years.

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Kindle users will be able to download, free of charge, 25 million pages of digitized books, from noteworthy editions of well known authors like Dickens, Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to rare early 19th century fiction and even the UK's best collection of «penny dreadfulls».»

Just off the promenade, Hennessey & Ingalls sells the largest collection of art and architecture books in the Western U.S., while Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller specializes in rare books printed before 1800.

Enjoy your aperitif and explore our library, which has rare collections and book publishing.

Just off the promenade, Hennessey & Ingalls sells the largest collection of art and architecture books in the Western U.S., while Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller specialises in rare books printed before 1800.

On view in the East Room are examples from The Morgan Library & Museum's extraordinary collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts, rare printed books and bindings, and handwritten manuscripts of great writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance to the present day.

It commissions artists to create original works inspired by the museum's collection of nearly 400,000 rare books, manuscripts, and decorative and ï ¬ ne arts objects.

Lambert, who has a personal art collection, 650 works from which were donated to the French nation in 2012, is to devote himself to his other bobby of bibliophilia and plans to open a new venue entirely specialised in artistic books, rare prints and exhibition catalogues.

This publication features up to 1,500 objects from Oursler's collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters and objects.

A color catalogue will accompany the exhibition with new scholarship by Pellom McDaniels III, Ph.D., Curator of African American Collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Association of Fellows The Fellows provide crucial operating support, allowing the Morgan to organize superb exhibitions, offer educational programs for audiences of all ages, and care for and make accessible one of the world's foremost collections of manuscripts, rare books, and art.

Come see a rare and comprehensive collection of Sci - Fi Pulp magazines, paperbacks, and hardcover books displayed on the Back Room Gallery walls.

Vibrantly patterned woven, printed, and embroidered textiles join the museum's collection of rare Kelmscott Press books in this exhibition

At the APG Art Atelier & Book Bazaar you can wander from table to table shopping for vintage and rare books from the collection of Owen Jones.

In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837 — 1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847 — 1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME Hampton University Museum, Hampton University, Hampton, VA Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA La Salle University Art Museum, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA Library of Congress, Washington, DC The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC National Collections of France, Ministry of Culture, Paris, France National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Newark Museum, Newark, NJ New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA New - York Historical Society Museum & Library, New York, NY The Galleries at Pasadena City College, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Board of Education, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA St. John's University, Queens, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY United States General Services Administration, Washington, DC

With earlier series, Xie has painted manuscripts and rare books from university and museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library.