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The 26 letters

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Description: "Beginning with the earliest man (35, 000-15,000 B.C.), his implements and his culture, this ... book traces through the centuries the development of writing from the earliest cave drawings in northern Spain to the modern linotype."
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1959.
Call number: 608521
Creator: Ogg, Oscar(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, 1999. From the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Berger, Sanford,; Berger, Helen,
Associated organization: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,

Jade : a study in Chinese archaeology and religion

Rare Books

The two minerals nephrite and jadeite, popularly comprised under the name jade, belong to the hardest and most cherished materials of which primitive man availed himself in shaping his chisels, hatchets, ornaments, amulets and many other implements. Such objects, partially of considerable antiquity, have been found in many parts of the world--in Asia, New Zealand, in prehistoric Europe and America. -- Introduction.

654077

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A----, David. 1 letter to Gerhart, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1925, Sep. 26), Cambridge (Eng.)

Manuscripts

The manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera cover a wide span of Lord Kinross' literary career, from his earliest columns as a journalist to his final major work, The ottoman centuries. The photographs include many images used by Kinross for his biography of Kemal Atatürk.

KIN 519

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Articles by Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, 1904-: Letters to the Editor, 26 pieces, (1955- 1973)

Manuscripts

mssKIN

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Box 26

Rare Books

This collection contains periodicals and monographs with content written by or about poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski that were collected by Bukowski's long-time publisher and Black Sparrow Press founder, John Martin. The collection contains 703 items from 255 periodicals and 37 monographs dating 1940 to 2003, with the bulk of items spanning from 1956 to 1979, that include poems, short stories, interviews, introductions, and excerpts by Bukowski, as well as some additional periodicals associated with Bukowski. The earliest items in the collection -- a January 19, 1940, issue of the Los Angeles Collegian, Bukowski's college newspaper, and the first issues of The Naked Ear dating from 1956 -- do not contain writings by Bukowski. Among the earliest items with contributions by Bukowski is the September-October 1957 issue of Existaria. Items consist primarily of literary periodicals (including "little magazines" or 'zines), magazines, and alternative/underground newspapers, as well as some chapbooks and anthologies. The collection features a complete run of the ten issues of the periodical Nomad published between 1959 and 1962, as well as eighty-six issues of Open City from the late 1960s and issues of the Los Angeles Free Press that together provide a near complete run of Bukowski's column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man." Many of the items have penciled annotations including "C", "D", and "E" numbers that reference A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press, 1969) by Sanford Dorbin, as well as "NID" notations indicating items not in Dorbin's bibliography. The collection forms a subset of the Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection held in the Rare Books Department of the Huntington Library.

602815

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West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript

Manuscripts

Manuscript of Douglas S. Watson's biography of mountain man and scout Joseph Reddeford Walker (1798-1876), who helped blaze the California Trail. The biography traces Walker's early life in the southeast, his frequent travels throughout the Midwestern and Western United States (many of them with Captain Benjamin Bonneville), his participation in buffalo hunts and fur trapping, his expedition to California in 1833, his interactions and confrontations with California Indians, and his later trips to and settlement in California from the 1840s-1870s. Inscribed by P.H. Booth. Bound.

mssHM 74608

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The British United Provident Association (BUPA): Letters, statements, forms, receipts, bills, 26 pieces, (1965-1974)

Manuscripts

mssKIN

The 26 letters

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Jade : a study in Chinese archaeology and religion

A----, David. 1 letter to Gerhart, A.L.S. (2 p.), (1925, Sep. 26), Cambridge (Eng.)

Articles by Patrick Balfour, Baron Kinross, 1904-: Letters to the Editor, 26 pieces, (1955- 1973)

Box 26

West wind: the life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe: manuscript

The British United Provident Association (BUPA): Letters, statements, forms, receipts, bills, 26 pieces, (1965-1974)