PH. Rare Books and Print History

Scope and Contents Artists’ books are works of art in the form of a book. This collection consists of over 80 artists’ books created between 1970 and 2017. It includes works by famous artists like Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, Chuck Close, and Ed Ruscha as well as emerging artists during the period. There are also two reference works that provide intellectual context for the collection: Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century and Creating...

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Set number 416. Believed to be one of the 1000 numbered sets published by Pageant Books in Patterson, New Jersey in 1961. The first American facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible, two volume set. Color ink lithography on 100 percent rag paper. This facsimile was derived from the German Insel Verlag facsimile.

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Chapbooks are small books of poems, essays, or fiction. This chapbook collection consists of over 200 volumes published from 2000 to 2019, and includes works by Queens College faculty member Kimiko Hahn and other writers and poets like Sandra Cisneros, Stephen Dunn, and Louise Glück.

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Plays of the Spanish Golden Age were published in collection (parte) or separately (suelta). Comedias sueltas were published in Spain from the early 1600s to around 1850. The suelta (lit. “loose”) format consisted of a single play printed in a small pamphlet, although many were later bound into collected volumes. This collection consists of more than 160 items, mostly from the eighteenth century, and includes works by famous dramatists like Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

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The Don Quixote Collection is comprised of valuable editions of and related works about Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote spanning over 300 years. The collection contains original and facsimile editions in English, Spanish, and Italian, in a variety of sizes and bindings, and related works by other authors.

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Consisting of materials from the early years of print history, the Early Rare Books Collection is currently comprised of about forty items from the 16th and 17th centuries. It includes early printed books in a variety of sizes, languages, bindings, and conditions.

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The collection is comprised of issues 001 through 010 of El Molino Informativo, a publication that addresses the precarious conditions, low wages, and discrimination faced by immigrant delivery workers in New York City. The publication features articles by workers and community members without formal training as journalists to cover issues facing immigrant workers often overlooked by mainstream media. It is printed in Mexico.

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Fine Print: The Review for the Arts of the Book was published from 1975 until 1990. This is a complete set of all issues, including stand-alone index.

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Curated sets of issues of homophile (pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+) advocacy and community publications the Mattachine Review and The Ladder.

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Limited edition books, exhibit catalogs, and printed keepsakes designed and/or authored by Jerry Kelly, a book designer, calligrapher, type designer, and typographer, on various topics in history and the arts. Publishers include The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, David R. Godine, The Kelly-Winterton Press, and The Grolier Club.