From the Rare Books Collection. This antiphonal manuscript, circa 16th century, is believed to be of Spanish origin. An antiphoner is a Catholic liturgical book containing antiphons and responsories for the Daily Office, the set of eight daily...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. Cover or title page, preliminary. 25 x 13 cm. (12 x 11 cm.) Two girls and a boy look at pie. "A Apple Pie" lettered on illustration.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of jacket or cover (2 different versions) of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Sarah De Frehn (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #818, from...
From the Mircea Vasiliu Papers.; Preliminary pencil sketch on tracing paper and taped to layout sheets (pp. 24-25) for Mircea Vasiliu's A Day at the Beach (1977). 18.5" x 12.5"
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Manuscript. "A Short Account of a Boy of Guile and the Pigsty." Cover with illustration and title, page 1 "Oh little girlee..." illustration and text; page 2 "And they played awhile..." illustration and text; page 3...
From the Gail E. Haley Papers. Print, linoleum, "full color," for pages 12-13 of of A STORY, A STORY: AN AFRICAN TALE retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (New York: Atheneum, 1970), with the caption "Ananse and the Leopard" "#1/9" signed and...
From the Gail E. Haley Papers. Color separation "for orange and yellow plates" for pages 26-27 of A STORY, A STORY: AN AFRICAN TALE retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley (New York: Atheneum, 1970). A STORY, A STORY is the winner of the 1971...