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The White Goddess : a historical grammar of poetic myth
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Rare Books
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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 print created by Benjamin W. Hitchcock's American Card Company advertising Union playing cards designed during the American Civil War. The title is decorative, with red, white, and blue elements used in the design. In the center of the title is an image of an American eagle perched above a dome, surrounded with scrollwork and decorative elements. Main images on print are the twelve covers of the playing cards. Traditional French card icons of suit of hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades have been replaced with patriotic icons of eagles, shields, stars, and flags. The image of the King is replaced by an image of a colonel in military attire. The image of the Queen is replaced by the allegorical Lady/Goddess Liberty shown in stripes and stars while holding up a red liberty cap. The Jack image is replaced by an image of a major dressed in military attire. A decorative border surrounds the print on all sides.
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Manuscripts
The Manuscripts series is arranged alphabetically by author and title. The manuscripts include a selection of Silverberg's literary works, mostly dating from 1973-1995. Included in this series are: novels, anthologies, short stories, novellas, essays, articles, book reviews, interviews, pilot scripts, galley proofs, page proofs, and confirmation proofs. Most of the manuscripts in this series are typed and appear to be close too, if not, the final revision. Some of Silverberg's works found within this series include: Born with the dead, Capricorn games, Galactic dreamers, Gilgamesh the king, How they pass the time in Pelpel, The Nebula awards, New dimensions 2, 6, 7, and 8, Nightwings, Revolt on Alpha C, Sundance and other science fiction stories, and Time gate volume two: Dangerous interfaces. This series also includes manuscripts by other authors, most notably Isaac Asimov, A.A. Attanasio, Gregory Benford, Orson Scott Card, C.J. Cherryh, Ellen Datlow, Tom DeHaven, Samuel R. Delany, Gordon R. Dickson, L. Ron Hubbard, Wolfgang Jeschke, Marc Laidlaw, H.P. Lovecraft, Janet Morris, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, S.P. Somtow, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Harry Turtledove, Jack Vance, and Dave Wolverton. There is also a biography of Philip K. Dick and a copy of his last interview. Some of the manuscripts are too large to be stored with this series and have been placed in oversize boxes 80-89.
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Scrapbook album, grey cloth covered. Decorated with image of classical Greek muse playing pan-pipes. This item is #02905 in Berger's catalogue under the title "Album of Invitations" with date range 1880-1910 and described simply as "Invitations to exhibition openings – A+C" with "A+C" presumably meaning "Arts and Crafts". The album contains many elaborately engraved invitations to various events such as gallery openings, dinners, book launch events, etc. associated with or intended for eminent figures of the Victorian and Edwardian Arts and Crafts milieu such as Gleeson White, Walter Crane, and John Diblee Crace.
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Original copper plate engraved by Robert Havell Sr., titled "White Headed Pigeon" and numbered CLXXVII from John James Audubon's "Birds of America". This plate was the original copper plate used to print the images for both the White-crowned Pigeon and the White Headed Pigeon images in Audubon’s Birds of America. The copper plate is 1/16” (.16 cm) thick. Robert Havell, Sr., a London engraver, produced this image and others through a combination of techniques, incorporating engraving, etching and aquatint – a printmaking technique that involves using acid to make marks in the plate. This allows for subtle tonal shades in the final print that is pulled from the plate.
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