Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The Arabian nights : tales of wonder and magnificence
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a gold oil lamp radiating rays of light; the poster advertises the production of the musical dramatic spectacle "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp," based on the Middle Eastern folktale, at the Chestnut Street Theatre (or Chesnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, managed by Leonard Grover.
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Rare Books
A selection of the most famous and representative of these tales from the plain and literal translations by Richard F. Burton; the stories have been chosen and arranged by Bennett A. Cerf and are printed complete and unabridged with many of Burton's notes; introductory essay by Ben Ray Redman.
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Visual Materials
Image of a parade procession of horse-drawn wagons in a street pageant put on by the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth featuring representations of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
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Visual Materials
This collection contains more than 650 printed items that relate to circuses in the United States from the 1850s to the 1990s. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations produced for or pertaining to circuses, their tours and shows, staff and performers, acts and exhibits, and animals. Materials are arranged in three series: small-size prints and ephemera (11 x 14 inches or less); large-size prints and ephemera (more than 11 x 14 inches); and broadsides and handbills. The collection has 206 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic posters containing brightly colored images of featured circus acts, performers, and animals that were typically posted outdoors in advance of the circus coming to town. Small-size items in the collection number more than 320 and are comprised mainly of advertising and promotion ephemera and business documents such as trade cards, programs and souvenir books, route cards, envelopes, tickets, songsters, and printed billheads and letterheads. The 130 broadsides, handbills, and related advertisements consist primarily of long, narrow broadsides printed on newspaper paper in black ink using letterpress type that advertised upcoming circus shows and were intended to be distributed by hand, left in stacks in public places, or posted on walls, fences, or in windows in advance of the circus's arrival in a town. This collection provides a resource for studying the history of the American circus and its impact on popular entertainment and advertising in the 19th and 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of the development of printmaking techniques and trends, and of the artists, engraves, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints.
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Manuscripts
Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Winter Blood by J Roc, The Legend of Joseph Nokato by L. P. Bachmann, Murder at the Savoy by M. Sjowal, Event 1000 by D. Lavalee. Rabbit Redux by J. Updike, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by G. Sorrentino, Into Your Tent I'll Creep by P. DeVries, The Professor's Daughter by P. P. Read, In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul, The Condor Passes by S. A. Grau, The Abduction by M. Kumin, The Rose Rabbi by D. Stern, A Start in Life by A. Sillitoe, What Became of Jane Austen? by K. Amis, Tussy is Me by M. Hastings, Lighter than a Feather by D. Westheimer, Ourselves by J. Strong, The World without Women by V. Martini, From Columbus to Castro by E. Williams, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by N. Mokgatle, Stories and Prose Poems by A. Solzhenitsyn, Way Uptown in Another World by S. Stevens, A Dutiful Daughter by T. Kenneally, The Other by T. Tryon, A Peep into the 20th Century by C. Davis, The Season of the Witch by J. L. Herlihy, Levkas Mann by H. Innes, Blue Dreams by W. Hanley, The Potlatch Run by W. Price, Love in the Ruins by W. Percy, Caliban's Filibuster by P. West, Bound to Violence by Y. Ouologuem, Ali and Nino by K. Said, Eisenhower My Eisenhower by J. Charyn, The Masked Men by A. Fakinos.
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