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The Mortimer Rare Book Room occasionally publishes books,
pamphlets, and exhibition catalogues related to the collections, all of
which are for sale. Order Form. For more
information contact Barbara Blumenthal at bblument@smith.edu.
FEATURED
TITLES
| Inspired Design: The Mentoring Stamp (2008). 48 pp.,
illustrated. $35. Order form. |
| A catalogue of a set book exhibition of fine bindings
by members of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers
at Smith College August -December 2008. Thirty binders interpreted
Designing the Mentoring Stamp by Lance Hidy. The catalogue includes
color illustrations and descriptions of the bindings, biographies
of the binders, and artist statements. Order
form. Click
here for more information on the exhibition. |
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| Werner Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter):
Book-Objects & Artist Books (2008). 68 pp., illustrated. $15.
Order form. |
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This is the catalogue of a
retrospective exhibition at Smith College, April through July 2008,
of the work of graphic artist, typographer, sculptor, and teacher
Werner Pfeiffer. Much of Pfeiffer’s work comments on censorship,
and it engages the viewer/reader in ways beyond the manipulation of
books by turning pages. Click
here for more information about the exhibit. |
| No Other Appetite: Sylvia Plath,
Ted Hughes and the Blood Jet of Poetry (2005). 68 pp., illustrated
$35. Order form. |
| No Other Appetite is the
catalogue of an exhibition mounted at The
Grolier Club of New York in the fall of 2005. The exhibition
brought together for the first time original letters, manuscripts,
and photographs from two of the 20th century's most celebrated poets.
Materials were primarily from the Sylvia Plath archive at Smith
College and the Ted Hughes archive at Emory University. The exhibition
documented the close creative relationship of these two poets during
the years of their marriage and the repercussions of Plath's tragic
suicide in the life and work of her husband, the late poet laureate
of Britain. The exhibition
was co-curated by Smith's associate curator of special collections
Karen
Kukil and Emory's Stephen Enniss.
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The catalogue, designed by Bruce Kennett, won the
2007 American Library Associations Leab Exhibitions Award. Order
Form. |
| David P. Bourbeau, Out
of the Cellar: A Garland for Cantina (2005)
32 pages, illustrated, and with a portrait by Ansel Adams

This is the story of the Cantina Press, the private
press founded in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1936-37 by Clarence
and Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy at the height of the private press movement
in England and America. Both Kennedys were classicists and Renaissance
scholars and taught at Smith College. The text is by local bibliotect
David P. Bourbeau; the introduction is by Martin Antonetti, curator
of rare books at Smith. The book was produced using the talents
of various members of the local book arts community. [more
information]
Regular edition (200 copies): $35.00
Deluxe edition (50 copies with the Ansel Adams portrait rendered
as a photogravure): $75.00 Order form.
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Holding In, Holding On: Artist's Books by Martha A. Hall (2003).
Wrappers, 103 pp., illustrated in color. The catalogue of an exhibition
organized by the Mortimer Rare Book Room and on view at Smith College,
Wellesley College, Bowdoin College, and Yale University from 2003-2004.
Martha Hall, who died in 2004 after a 15-year struggle with breast
cancer, created books as a healing therapy in response to her illness.
The catalogue also includes an introduction by Dr. Letha Mills, who
was Martha's physician and friend, an artist's statement, and a catalogue
raisonne of all of Martha's work. $15. Order
form. |
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Véronique Plesch, Illuminating
Words: The Artist's Books of Christopher Gausby (1999).
Wrappers, 36 pp., illustrated in color.
The catalogue of an exhibition curated by Martin Antonetti held
at the Smith College Museum of Art and the Colby College Museum
of Art, with an introductory essay. $15. Order
form. |
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Michèle V. Cloonan (ed.), Books Illustrated:
Presentations from the symposium celebrating the work of Ruth Mortimer
held at Smith College, April 12-13, 1996 (1997).
Wrappers, 48 pp., illustrated.
Essays by Ellen Dunlap, Barry Moser, Sidney Berger, John Lancaster,
Margaret Lane Ford, Barbara Blumenthal, and Laura Davidson. $10. Order
form. |
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Karen Kukil, (ed.), Woolf in the Real
World: Selected Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference
on Virginia Woolf, (2005). Contents.
The Thirteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf took place
at Smith College on 5-8 June 2003. Nearly 200 papers focused on
the ways Woolf engaged the "real world" of her time and
the ways her legacy continue to engage "real world" issues
now. Thirty essays were selected for publication that reflect the
life, writings, and afterlife of Virginia Woolf, edited by Karen
Kukil. Order Form. Online
version. |
NOTECARDS
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Sylvia
Plath Notecards. These 5 x 7” notecards (blank inside)
feature a photograph of Sylvia Plath with her typewriter in Yorkshire,
England, September 1956, and a brief excerpt from Plath’s
journal, dated May 14, 1952. Printed on the occasion of the Sylvia
Plath 75th Year Symposium at Smith College, April 25-26, 2008. 4
cards & envelopes. $6.00. Order
form. |
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Sylvia
Plath 75th Year Symposium at Smith College Poster. This poster,
printed on card stock, was produced on the occasion of the Sylvia
Plath 75th Year Symposium at Smith College, April 25-26, 2008. It
features a photograph of Sylvia Plath with her typewriter in Yorkshire,
England, September 1956, and a brief excerpt from Plath’s
journal, dated May 14, 1952. 12 x 20 inches. $12.00. Order
form. |
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Woolf
Boxed Card Sets. Early Photographs of Virginia Woolf and her parents,
Leslie and Julia Stephen. 8 cards and envelopes, blank inside. 5 x
7 inches. $12. Order Form. |
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Jost Amman Notecards. Set of letterpress-printed
cards featuring four different images of women from the 1586 edition
of Jost Amman's Gynaeceum, sive Theatrum Mulierum (The World of Women).
Shown here: "Noble Woman of Franconia". 4 cards and envelopes,
5 x 7 inches. $5. Order form. |
BACKLIST
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Question (1984). Wrappers, 8 pp., illustrated.
Reproduction of the calligraphic manuscript of the poem by Leah Palmer
Preiss from the 1839 edition of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley,
commissioned by the Smith College Library Rare Book Room. $5. Order
form.
Virginia Woolf, The Love of Reading abridged by the author from How Should
One Read a Book? (1985). Wrappers, 21 pp. $5. Order
form.
Sylvia Plath, Stings (1982). Wrappers, 29 pp. Original drafts of the
poem in facsimile, with an essay by Susan R. Van Dyne. $10. To order contact
Jad Davis, Smith College Alumnae Assocation, at jaddavis@smith.edu.
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