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The origins of printing and engraving

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Description: "Booklovers in general will welcome this readable book as a trustworthy account of perhaps the greatest invention of all time, and librarians, bibliographers, printers, and artists, will particularly appreciate it, and find it a helpful work of permanent reference value"--From dust jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1940.
Call number: 656831
Creator: Blum, André (1881-1963)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005 This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was donated to The Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.

A choice of murders : 23 stories by members of the Mystery Writers of America

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"For any reader who likes to relax in the company of a murderer, this book will prove a delight. It offers a splendid range of murderous activity--twenty-three stories, running from exercises in detection in the classical tradition to the tale of explosive violence. Anyone at all knowledgeable about mystery fiction will find familiar and admired names among the contributors: Stanley Ellin is here, with a prize-winning story; you will find Ross MacDonald [that is, Macdonald], Mignon Eberhart, Andrew Garve, and many more"--Dust jacket.

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Encyclopedia of printing lithographic inks and accessories : secrets, formulae and helpful hints for craftsmen in the grahpic arts

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"This encyclopedia of printing and lithographic inks is the most comprehensive book of its kind ever published, and the aim is to help all who desire more knowledge. No one volume contains such a wealth of information. It shows simplified methods, for mixing and matching colors so simple that inks can be matched in any press room without extra equipment. It contains complementary and harmonious color combinations and many secrets of color blending"--From dust jacket.

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Belle H. Seager letter to Henry E. Huntington

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Letter to Henry Huntington asking for his aid to enable the Pasadena Boy Scouts to aid French boys to attend summer camp. She relates that the atmosphere created in the Boy Scout organization is extremely beneficial to boys in the devastated areas and to France in general. She goes on to relate the good work the Committee had undertaken under the direction of Miss Jesse Carson and is enclosing a copy of the report in hopes that he has time to read it. Mrs. Seager writes that she would appreciate any aid of suggestions Mr. Huntington might have and gives Mrs. Howard Huntington as a reference concerning the work of the Committee. Mrs. Seager writes that she will be away all summer in New England on Committee business, but her correspondence will be handled by Dr, George E. Hale's secretary. She asks for a short interview with Mr. Huntington when she returns in the fall. Letter is on American Committee for Devastated France letterhead.

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Drawings and engravings of Jack London (5 prints)

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera pertaining to the life and work of Joan London. Since much of London's work focused on her father, many items in the collection specifically relate to the life and writings of Jack London. The collection contains correspondence between Joan and individuals who knew, or were interested in, her father, the notes and drafts used by London in writing her father's biography, and several copies of letters written by Jack London himself. Joan was also interested in the life of her paternal grandfather, William Henry Chaney, and the collection contains both manuscripts and notes relating to him. Joan London's unpublished work, Visiting rights only, is one of several manuscripts in the collection, and it specifically addresses Joan's feelings towards her father and her thoughts on her childhood within a single-parent family.

mssMI 1-1474

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Drawings and engravings of Jack London (7 prints)

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mssMI 1-1474

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The Kama sutra : the classic Hindu treatise on love and social conduct

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The publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of this celebrated classic of Indian literature is a literary event of the first importance. As important to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1700 years and may well be the only indisputable classic of the world's literature not yet to have appeared widely in English. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. The Kama Sutra is a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry and sexology; its importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained the indispensable key to an understanding of it. Long forbidden in America because of its supposedly erotic contents, the Kama Sutra will prove of great value to the student of the East--and a great delight to the sophisticated general reader.

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