2009 Selections from the Gould Library Collection
January 2009
The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities
Chicago; A.N. Marquis & Company, 1894
Gould Library Special Collections
Marie Burroughs, born Lillie Arrington, was a popular stage actress of the late 19th century. Burroughs' Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities aimed "to present, in one artistic and comprehensive collection, the portraits of the most noted dramatic, operatic and musical artists of the world."
February 2009
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Looking at our Homeless Veterans Programs: How Effective are They?: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. 109th Cong., 2nd sess., March 16, 2006.
Full text of the hearing can be found here
U.S. Congress. Senate. Sheltering All Veterans Everywhere Act or SAVE Reauthorization Act of 2005. S.1180. 109th Cong., 1st sess.
“Agenda: Veterans.” January 2009. http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/veterans/ (accessed February 3, 2009).
March 2009
Broder
Paulette Myers-Rich and Anna Reckin
Minneapolis: Traffic Street Press, 1999
Broder is a collaboration between visual artist Paulette Myers-Rich and poet Anna Reckin. Along with poems and images about stitching and lacework, the title features a proofreader's transpose mark in the word “Broder” to make “Border,” which plays on the French word to embroider.
Myers-Rich is 2009’s Minnesota Book Artist Award winner. The award, which is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and the Friends of the St. Paul Library, recognizes a Minnesota book artist for excellence throughout a body of work, as well as significant contributions to Minnesota’s book arts community. Gould Library Special Collections houses several of Myers-Rich’s artist books.
April 2009
Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (1866-1946)
The War of the Worlds
Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964
#29 of 1500
Gould Library Special Collections
May 2009
JACK COLE AND PLASTIC MAN
Forms Stretched to Their Limits
Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001
June 2009
Plate XXXIV
Platanus nobilis Newb.
John Strong Newberry (1822-1892)
U.S. Geological Survey Monographs Vol. XXXV:
The Later Extinct Flora of North America
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1898
Gould Library Government Documents
Issued as the 35th volume in a series of U.S. Geological Survey monographs, The Later Extinct Floras of North America, was a posthumous edition by geologist John Strong Newberry. The book is an incomplete series of 68 of Newberry’s drawn plates of fossilized flora from the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Newberry, a geologist, palaeontologist and explorer worked closely with the Smithsonian Institution as well as the Illinois, Ohio, and United States Geological Surveys. He was also the first geologist to visit the Grand Canyon.
The lithographs were created by the Thomas Sinclair and Son Lithography studio in Philadelphia.
July 2009
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor
Banyan Press, New York, 1948
Gould Library Collection
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor was one of Gertrude Stein's only detective stories-- a genre which Stein herself loved. The book was written in 1933 but not published until 1948, two years after Stein's death. It was printed from manuscripts she had left to the library at Yale University.
This numbered edition of Blood on the Dining-Room Floor was printed by the Banyan Press, a small press founded in 1946 by Claude Fredericks. Fredericks' printing philosophy was: "What makes good printing is a simplicity in design, consistency in execution, and a relentless solicitude for each and every detail."
September 2009
Josh Neufeld (1967- )
A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge
New York, Pantheon Books, 2009
Gould Library Collection
Having demonstrated his artistic skills as a long-time illustrator for Harvey Pekar's autobiographical saga, American Splendor, Josh Neufeld exercised his literary skills in Katrina Came Calling (2006). This self-published book, which preceded and inspired A.D., recorded Neufeld's experience as an American Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi, Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge was originally published as a serial graphic novel distributed online through Smith Magazine. The book recalls the hurricane that shook southeast Louisiana at the end of August 2005 through the true stories of seven local citizens. This visually stimulating account of the storm and its impact on New Orleans was published in a hardcover edition in 2009.
October 2009
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Woodcuts by Lynd Ward (1905-1985)
Frankenstein
Lakewood, Colorado, Centipede Press, 2006
Gould Library Special Collections
At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity.
The 64 woodcuts that illustrate this edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s haunting classic are by Lynd Ward, progenitor of the novel without words (or graphic novel). Originally produced for a 1936 edition of the text, Ward’s illustrations vividly evoke the misery and rage of Frankenstein’s monstrous creation.