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OverviewIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others. Distributed for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kathryn James , Raymond Clemens , Nancy Kuhl , George MilesPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 21.30cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 22.20cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780300196429ISBN 10: 0300196423 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 22 September 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationKathryn James is Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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