Monthly Archive: December 2020

The compiled newspaper clippings and articles on James Joyce shows how the world interacts with the author as a cultural figure. When holding the book, it feels as if it has been created by...

Upon first glance, I immediately noticed the small pamphlet’s sepia stain, which, to my millennial eyes, indicates an old, dated text. In fact, this particular version of H.G. Wells’s “The War and Socialism” was...

Camus’s 1957 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize ultimately consists of an expression of gratitude for an award he feels somewhat unworthy of receiving, and an elaboration upon what he views his role as...

The Muse of the Violets by Renée Vivien was translated from French by Margaret Porter and Catherine Kroger in 1977. It is a collection of 18 poems on the topics of love and suppressed...

This hardback edition of “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde was published in 1927 by the Brothers Johnson at The Windsor Press in San Francisco. Considering that the story was originally published...

While I did not get the chance to see the physical book, just by looking at the cover of “The Happy Prince”, one can guess at the inner contents being on the whimsical, imaginative...

My object is a 1958 edition of Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize for Literature Acceptance Speech given in December of the prior year. The speech is published in a book form, with each page containing...

Renee Vivien’s The Muse of the Violets is a collection of poetry translated from its original French. It is a small, thin book, a first edition in English published by The Naiad Press published...

What stands out to me initially about this letter to Virginia Woolf is that this letter is not immediately related to Woolf’s stories or novels, let alone the stories we read for class. Rather,...

Will visited the Rubenstein Rare Books Library a few weeks ago to examine an original copy of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Fräulein Else, published in 1924. The book is small, with a worn green cover...