Other people's books : association copies and the stories they tell

Folger bibliographic ID: 244742
Folger call number: Z1033.A84 O74 2011
Folger holdings ID: 309970
Accession Number: 266855

Consists of 52 essays by 51 authors, each describing a single book from an institutional or private collection

General notes

"Design and typography: Hal Kugeler ... Printed by Graphicom, Verona, Italy ... The type is Adobe Caslon ..."--Title page verso One of 1,000 copies Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Preface and acknowledgments / Kim Coventry -- Introduction / G. Thomas Tanselle -- From Jensen to Rogers : typographic connections across six centuries / Jill Gage -- Americana Vetustissima : Richard Eden's annotated copy of Peter Martyr's Decades of the New World / Earle Havens -- The mystery of the gift to the Tsar / Roger S. Baskes -- Two eminent Elizabethans / Stephen Parks -- Van Meteren's contentious Memorien / James Tanis -- The fruits of Johannes Kepler's New astronomy / Bruce Stephenson -- "I beegane, to ovrloke this Booke. . ." : Lady Anne Clifford's copy of Titles of honor / Richard J. Kuhta -- An unexpected Isaac Newton provenance / Per Rålamb -- A bibliophile and an engineer : a 250-year provenance / Ronald K. Smeltzer -- A serendipitous acquisition / Paul T. Ruxin -- Samuel Johnson's The Prince of Abissinia / Samuel B. Ellenport -- A scholar's notepad / Terry I. Seymour -- Presidential views of slavery / Stanley Ellis Cushing -- The butler did it / Edward Gaynor --Thomas Jefferson and the Bill of Rights / Joel Silver -- "Her favourite moral writer" : Jane Austen's Cowper / Garth D. Reese, Jr. -- Audubon makes his mark in Philadelphia / Robert McCracken Peck -- The peddler and the patroon / Steve Tomashefsky -- Dewitt Miller and Robert Southey's copy of The Doctor / Nicholas B. Scheetz -- The travels of Abraham Lincoln's copy of The poetical works of Alexander Pope / Thomas A. Horrocks -- Pattison's Pope as an index of lives / David L. Vander Meulen -- Sealed with his own blood / Richard E. Turley, Jr. -- Prairie voices : the Kinzie family in Chicago / Lorna Donley -- Whitman and Thoreau meet in Brooklyn / Mark G. Dimunation -- Moby-Dick and Melville's whaling mates / Alice Schreyer -- Book-running in the Civil War / John P. Chalmers -- Clarence S. Darrow : a Chicago lawyer / Ann C. Weller -- Oliver Herford draws a self-portrait for his publisher / G. Thomas Tanselle -- The hound upon my bookshelf / Jon Lellenberg -- From my hands to yours : uncovering the Tynan-Wyndham connection / Philip R. Bishop -- Hither-unpublished Obiter Dicta / Jerry Morris -- My "Incomparable Max" Beerbohm book / Mark Samuels Lasner -- Two Nobel laureates : Bertha von Suttner and Gerhart Hauptmann / Junie L. Sinson -- A bibilophile's journey in search of association copies / Millard M. Riggs, Jr. -- Keepers of the Floating World / Celia Hilliard -- Jack London and Carl Jung / Alan Jutzi -- Don't kidd yourself / Kay Michael Kramer -- Shakespeare by heart / Stephen Enniss -- The T. S. Eliot-inscribed copy of The great Gatsby / Samuel Streit -- Dune beyond dune : John Hall Wheelock and Van Wyck Brooks / George D. Meredith -- The industrialist and the socialist / Chatham Ewing -- An inscribed book of inscriptions : Chicago inscriptions by Gertrude Stein / Edward C. Hirschland -- The writer and his lawyer : James Joyce, Morris Ernst, and Ulysses / Molly Schwartzburg -- Gottfried Benn and his publisher Erich Reiss / Dr. Steven Schuyler -- Forever Scarlett : Vivien Leigh by Emilio Grau Sala / John Wiley, Jr. -- A friendship born on the roof of the world / Robert McCracken Peck -- Silent partner / John C. Blew -- Historians and the Enlightenment / David Spadafora -- Leopold and Gertz / Scott Krafft -- The activist priest and absurdist playwright : Daniel Berrigan and Eugène Ionesco / Kathryn DeGraff -- Kesey and Kirk: One flew over the cuckoo's nest goes to Hollywood / George Sargent -- Piazza Carignano and the social connections between Alain Elkann, Diane von Furstenberg, and Andy Warhol / Richard J. Gemmell

Extended title: Other people's books : association copies and the stories they tell / introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle

Association copies of books Marginalia Books and reading

associated with: Tanselle, G. Thomas (George Thomas), 1934-
associated with: Kugeler, Hal
associated with: Caxton Club
associated with: Graphicom (Firm)