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Collection of books, pamphlets and periodicals relating to international languages, primarly Volapük, (bulk 1831-1889)
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Charles Bukowski Periodical Collection
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This collection contains periodicals with content written by or about the poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, covering a span from 1941 to 2009, and is a subset of the Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection. The materials consist of nearly 400 issues of 248 periodicals that contain poems, short stories, interviews, excerpts, and drawings by Bukowski, as well as photographs of him, and articles or interviews about him, or in which he is mentioned. The materials span from Bukowski's first published short story "'Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip,"' which was published in Story magazine in 1941, to obituaries and articles about Bukowski and posthumously printed poems and short stories that appeared after his death in 1994. The items range from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines published in a number of countries and in a variety of languages including English, German, and French. Approximately 90 periodical titles received with this collection are not included in this finding aid but are instead cataloged individually; they may be retrieved by doing a keyword search for "Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection" in the Huntington Library Online Catalog: catalog.huntington.org. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, language (if other than English), the titles, page numbers, and authors of the Bukowski-related pieces, and a short description of the content.
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The Byte and Bits of Language: A Survey of Language Structure [microform]
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Drawing from various current grammar systems, this text provides a practical and easy-to-understand handbook of grammar for readers of expository prose (language written for explanation and read for understanding). The analysis in the book is designed to perform two functions: (1) help readers receive with clarity, if at all possible, the communication intended by writers; and (2) provide a basis, depending on purpose, for achieving efficiency in this reading process. The diagramming system in the book is organized around "word nests" that illustrate and clarify grammatical relationships with greater efficiency than the traditional "fishhooks." (Keh).
610170
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[Collection of children's books]
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A collection of children's books assembled from various unknown provenances. A group appears to have been assembled in the 1930s as souvenirs from an around the world journey as they are in various languages and have "Greetings from ... " various countries written on the covers and "For little Norma" on title pages. The publication dates range from 1830s to 1930s. The bulk of the collection published in the United States.
195326
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Little Blue Book collection, (bulk 1920s)
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This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.
644677
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Bibliography of books in Indian languages: handwritten notes
Manuscripts
These eight items are made up of handwritten notes regarding publications in various American Indian languages including Mohawk, Creek, and others. They are written by several different people and may be related to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's book A bibliographical catalogue of books, translations of the Scriptures, and other publications in the Indian tongues of the United States, published in 1849 (although the notes were not written by Schoolcraft). The entires include books by missionary John Eliot, missionary David Zeisberger, and Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant, and others. The entry often includes other information about the book such as publication date and printer.
mssHM 80604 (a-h)
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[Lincoln centennary] : [A collection of excerpts and pamphlets]
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Collection of works on Lincoln published at the time of the centennary of his birth. Selected individual titles are analyzed and may be searched in the catalog.
38957