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Type Is Something You Hold in Your Hand

If you are handling antiquarian books all day, it’s always useful to have a practical...

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Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographs

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photographs

Among the joys of cataloguing rare books and historical materials are the serendipitous moments of discovery and connection. We recently obtained a mysterious set of 27 photographs related to the...

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Entartete Kunst – Degenerate Art

Entartete Kunst – Degenerate Art

A rare survival, this is the programme that accompanied Entartete Kunst, the Nazi’s 1937 exhibition mocking “degenerate” avant-garde art. Targeting modern art, music, and literature was an important...

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Fortune

Fortune

It was November 1929, only a month after the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression, and Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine, had an idea. In the prospectus for a new magazine he...

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