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Front cover of the book, featuring a yellow and red version of one of the black and white plates inside by James Torrance. Title is in gold.

Color book cover of Thousand and one afternoons in Chicago. Gift of Jonathan Stern.

Front cover of Napoleon in exile by Barry O'Meara. Specialty leather binding with portrait of Napoleon by George Cruikshank. Gift of Milton Lewis.

Handwritten note in black ink reading: "Early to bed and early to rise and you will meet very few prominent people," signed George Ade. Hazelden Farm, Brook, Indiana printed at head of the sheet. Gift of William and Irene Beck.

Engraved black and white frontispiece illustration of Abraham Lincoln "After photo from life" by John Sartain. Part of the book Life and times of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States : including his speeches, messages,…

Hand colored aquatint of Lion de Waterloo, a monument erected at the site of the famous battle. From Souvenir de Waterloo, oblong quarto book, with thirteen hand colored aquatints by Joseph Arnold Pingret and others. First and only edition of a very…

Embossed front book cover of Life of a racehorse. Gift of Anita Peabody.

Marginalia on front flyleaf of Killer, and other plays by Eugène Ionesco, inscribed by Daniel Berrigan, May 17, 1968. The inscription begins upside down on the title page and runs through two pages and the inside cover. The inscription is the…

Engraved frontispiece showing a sitting emperor, his hand on a globe, surrounded by his entourage and watching an execution. Text at head of the image reads: "Descriptio legationis Batavicae Societatis Indiae Orientalis ad magnum Tartariae chamum,…

Engraved title page of Adventures of Oliver Twist : or, the parish boy’s progress, illustrated by George Cruikshank. Gift of Nathan H. Schwartz and Jack Davidson.