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Illustrations for The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve
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Eve Babitz, family, and art
Manuscripts
Photographs of Eve Babitz from childhood through the 2000s, her family, and artwork. Artwork photographs include several prints of a Brian Jones collage, and a series of slides taken by Paul Ruscha.
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Christmas cards
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items: reproductions of Ben Abril paintings - scenes of historic L.A. and Paris. Used as Christmas cards by Vance Stickell, all with printed inscriptions, one with Stickell's signature
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Eve Babitz papers
Manuscripts
Materials documenting the life and career of writer and artist Eve Babitz. Writings includes drafts and galleys of her books Slow Days, Fast Company (1977), Sex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time (1979), L.A. Woman (1982), Black Swans (1993), and Two By Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night (1999); as well as articles and stories; screenplays; unpublished manuscripts; and collected clippings and publications. The Personal series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with friends, family, and publishing contacts; biographical and family items; and Babitz's notebooks and datebooks. Photographs are of Babitz, her friends and family, and the Los Angeles area, including hundreds she took with a Brownie camera documenting her friends and social sphere from 1968 to 1971. Artwork primarily consists of collages Babitz made between 1967 and1970, some commissioned for publication or album artwork. Collage subjects include musician friends and acquaintances including Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger, Stephen Stills, Ginger Baker, and Noel Harrison; commissioned work featuring Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minnelli; and pastoral and abstract scenes. There are also drawings and paintings dating from the early to mid-1960s.
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A Christmas card
Rare Books
Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card."
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A Christmas card
Rare Books
Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card."
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A Christmas card
Rare Books
Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card."
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