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The library at Transylvania University was the beneficiary of book collectors, particularly Clara Peck, a wealthy New York sportswoman. [3] Her donations included original folios of The Birds of America by John James Audubon, a two volume edition of Hortus Sanitatis and a first edition of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Classic Images is a monthly American mail-subscription newspaper in tabloid format, founded in 1962 by film collector Samuel K. Rubin, dedicated to film and television of the "Golden Age". [1] Its offices are located in Muscatine, Iowa, and it is published by the Muscatine Journal division of Lee Enterprises, Inc.
The National Union Catalog (NUC) is a printed catalog of books catalogued by the Library of Congress and other American and Canadian libraries, issued beginning in the 1950s. The National Union Catalog is divided into two series: the Pre-1956 Imprints is a 754-volume set containing all older records in a consolidated alphabetical format, while ...
The ESTC began life as the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, with the same abbreviation, covering only 1701 to 1800.Earlier printed works had been catalogued in A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave's Short Title Catalogue (1st edn 1926; 2nd edn, 1976–91) for the period 1473 to 1640; and Donald Goddard Wing's similarly titled bibliography (1945–51, with later supplements and addenda ...
[3]: 66 [22] Local communities held book drives and open houses to support libraries. [23] [24] [17] The Pack Horse Library Project not only distributed books but also provided reading lessons. [25] Librarians and book women would also read aloud to families. [15] Librarians were also seen as educators, bringing new ideas into isolated areas. [26]
The Horse Cave Adult Book Store, which sits just off Interstate 65 in what was once an outlet mall, has closed after three years of reports of illegal activity, the Hart County Sheriff’s ...
The store was established in Dearborn, Michigan by John K. King in 1965. [10] In 1971 it was moved to the Michigan Theatre in downtown Detroit. [10] In 1983 King purchased the abandoned Advance Glove factory, which has since housed the store's collections.
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker. It primarily reissues books that are out of print from their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be scarce or historically significant.