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On the death of a parent

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Description: "Losing a parent is at once a personal and universal experience. Facing up to such a profound shift in our emotional landscape forces every one of us to face not only our own maturity, but our own mortality also. And a parent's death can give us new insight into the people they were, on who we are, and into the relationship with our children, if we have them. In this stirring collection, fifteen original essays by some our best contemporary writers explore this crucial rite of passage"--Back cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1994.
Call number: 620998
ISBN: 1853818038; 9781853818035
Dimensions: 24 cm
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Dedication page of The Senior Blotter, the 1914 yearbook of New Albany High School, to Edwin Powell Hubble

Manuscripts

Dedication page (p. 4)from The Senior Blotter, the 1914 yearbook of New Albany High School, New Albany, Indiana. Dedication is to Edwin Powell Hubble and includes his photograph within an oval frame. The text below the photograph reads: To Edwin P. Hubble our beloved teacher of Spanish and Physics, who has been a loyal friend to us in our senior year, Ever willing to cheer and help us both in school and on the field, we the Class of 1914 lovingly dedicate this book".

mssHUB 1092 (2)

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Manuscripts, [undated]

Manuscripts

Untitled typewritten copy of a manuscript beginning "Just as Thomas Fossum will tell us, the very nature of our business, especially the retail segment, history tells us that we did not experience the severe shock during the big depression as other business did, and contrary to what you and I may think, flowers were a necessity, just as bread was for survival."

mssIto

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Specimens of type : a pandemic project, 2020-2022

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This specimen book represents a snapshot of the typefaces at Xanadu Press in Spring 2022... 240 typefaces of nearly 800 fonts. Inspired by typefounders' specimen books, we have grouped our types into themes that document our lives: the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, our appreciation for history and literature, nostalgia, and contemporary commentary. Dates and originators of these typefaces are as close as careful research could ascertain.

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Victorious service songs : Rodeheaver's combination song book for all services

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We believe that our friends and the great public will be better pleased with Victorious Service Songs than any other book we have published. Twenty years of association in writing, selecting and publishing gospel songs, combined with the knowledge acquired by observation in conducting the music of the largest congregations and choruses ever assembled for Christian worship, has given us a wealth of experience, the result of which we are passing on to you in this volume. From the beginning of our song ministry our ambition has been to raise the standard of gospel hymns and songs. We realized that this could not be brought about suddenly, but must be accomplished through a steady and natural growth. While fully appreciating the value of many of the old standard hymns (which appear in the hymn section in the larger type), we are firmly convinced that the tuneful, melodious gospel song must not be lost if we are to attract and retain the interest of young people in the service of song -- that vital factor of importance to the present and future activities of the church. With a reasonable number of new songs, together with many of the popular modern favorites, we have herein included a large number of the most famous hymns and tunes of the church -- a combination of both new and old songs that will admirably serve each and every department of the church work and worship. --Preface.

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This Week

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Approx. 30 items. Letters and memos tracing the decision to drop This Week magazine, a Sunday supplement published in NY City, in favor of "us(ing) all our resources for an intensified improvement of those parts of the Sunday Times which we create ourselves, and which are basically designed for Southern Californians"; etc.

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Bradley endorsement protests

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Approx. 25 items: a collection of angry letters in response to LAT's endorsement of Tom Bradley over Sam Yorty for Los Angeles mayor and attached standard response letters reading, in part, "I am sure you give us credit for making our political endorsements on the basis... of what we believe is the best interest of this city, this State and this nation," and closing with the observation that LAT knows some voters will always be displeased with any endorsement.

mssLAT

On the death of a parent

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