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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@email.smith.edu.
FEATURED
TITLES
| Werner
Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book-Objects
& Artist Books. 68 pp., illustrated. $15. Order
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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.
68 pp., illustrated $35. Order
form. |
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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@email.smith.edu.
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