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In 2006 the "Rare Book Room" website was created which contains the complete collection in medium to medium-high resolution freely available to the public through a web browser or as a PDF file. Some high resolution versions are still being sold by Octavo through a separate website. As of 2007 over 400 books have been scanned. [1]
Hans Peter Kraus (October 12, 1907 – November 1, 1988), also known as H. P. Kraus or HPK, was an Austrian-born American book dealer described as "without doubt the most successful and dominant rare book dealer in the world in the second half of the 20th century" [1] and in a league with other rare book dealers such as Bernard Quaritch, Guillaume de Bure and A.S.W. Rosenbach.
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is a section of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). ). The section is devoted to supporting the activities of special collections libraries and archives and promotes the interests of librarians, archivists, curators, and others concerned with the acquisition, organization ...
From the founding of the University Library into the twentieth century, rare materials were housed within the main stacks. [5] Significant early acquisitions, now housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, include the Richard Aron collection on German pedagogy (20,000 items), [6] acquired in 1913; the H. A. Rattermann collection of German-American literature (7,000 items), [7] acquired in ...
If Bullets Were Gold) and Amazon Fever [1] [2] Richard Brautigan: The God of the Martians; Harold Brodkey: A Party of Animals, a 2000-page manuscript in 1976 later published in a different form [3] Louise Brooks: Naked on My Goat, autobiographical novel; James Brown: A Fine Madness, a novel which Brown says "never found a publisher"
RBS students, typically about 40 years old, include curators and rare book librarians, established and young academics, antiquarian booksellers, book conservators and binders, and book collectors. The school employs a course evaluation system in which attendees write detailed prose accounts of their experience at the school.
Follow husband and wife team Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone as they search for rare and collectible volumes, and explore real mysteries in the rare-book world, in: Used And Rare: Travels In The Book World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. ISBN 0-312-15682-0. Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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