This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). The volumes cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art,...

The Francis Bacon Library was a private rare book research library on the campus of the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. It was founded by Walter Conrad Arensberg and his wife, Louise Stevens Arensberg. In 1938, they established The Francis...

This collection consists chiefly of correspondence and research files reflecting the activities of California architect Sanford L. Berger (1919-2000) in the mid-to-late 20th century as a collector, student, and enthusiast of objects and knowledge related to 19th century English artist,...

This collection contains 81 booklets from the popular Big Blue Book series edited by American social reformer and writer E. Haldeman-Julius and published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1927 to 1951, with...

This collection contains nearly 400 issues of 248 periodicals with content written by or about the poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), who was known for his crude and evocative poetry and prose that often described the hard...

An extra-illustrated volume containing 52 letter-press items from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, prints, portraits clippings and select manuscript items pertaining to Horace Walpole and his circle, chiefly between 1750 and 1801.

This collection contains approximately 450 articles, offprints, pamphlets, and other works collected by the British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) and forms part of the Sir Richard Francis Burton Library Printed Material Collection. The items cover a span of...

This collection consists chiefly of magazines containing the first appearances of works by American author and journalist Jack London (1876-1916), best known for his fiction about California, Alaska, and the Pacific. The collection includes 130 periodicals with London's short stories,...

The Annotated catalogs for Henry E. Huntington Library exhibitions contains more than 80 catalogs and gallery guides of exhibitions installed from 1929 to 2012 at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The catalogs were intended for the reference use...

The Collection of early printing fragments orginally from the Huth Library contains leaves from early English books printed in London from 1492 to 1575 and other fragments of early printing up to the 1690s

This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas in the mid-20th century. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such...

This collection contains approximately 870 publications and printed items, produced by various organizations, related to hospitals, medicine, medical education, and public health, chiefly in Southern California in the 20th century. The bulk of the collection consists of meeting programs, annual...

This collection contains periodicals and monographs with content written by or about California poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) that were collected by Bukowski's long-time publisher and Black Sparrow Press founder, John Martin (born 1930). The collection contains...

This is a collection of streamliner railroad ephemera, photographs, prints and posters, most of which was produced in the heyday of the American streamliner, the late 1930s to 1955. Also included are items on early aerodynamic experiments of the 19th...

This collection consists of 36 scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper clippings, periodical articles, and ephemera concerning British soldier and author T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935). Most of the albums were compiled in the 1960s, and many of the items discuss Lawrence retrospectively,...

This collection consists of an extra-illustrated set of the (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924), which includes 260 platinum prints chiefly by photographer Herbert W. Gleason (1855-1937) and ten manuscript fragments in John Muir's hand from a draft...

A bound volume containing 79 manuscript and printed broadsides chiefly from the 1720s and 1730s with satirical, humorous, and political ballads, poems, and prose by various Anglo-Irish writers, dramatists, and clerics including Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Some of the unattributed manuscript...

This collection contains 101 issues of periodicals with content written by or about the British author Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) between 1923 and 2010, with the bulk of the items dating from 1930 to 1965. 76 of the items contain articles...

This collection contains fifty-five magazines, exhibition catalogs, brochures, and other printed material related to the career and life of Edward Weston (1886-1958), a pioneering 20th-century American photographer known for his exploration of form in landscapes, still lifes, and nudes. The...

The Curt J. Zoller Churchill collection: printed materials and ephemera contains approximately 550 items related to British statesman Winston Churchill (1874-1965). The items date from 1903 to 2010 and consist of articles from a variety of periodicals by and about...