Saturday, August 06, 2011

Recent Acquisitions

It's been a while since I've posted an arrivals list:

- Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates by Martin Hopkinson (Yale University Press, 2011). Publisher.

- Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto (Crown, 2011). Publisher.

- Nightwoods by Charles Frazier (Random House, 2011). Publisher.

- The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011). Publisher.

- Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman (Putnam, 2011). Publisher.

- Memorandum on the Folly of Invading Virginia, the Strategic Importance of Portsmouth, and the Need for Civilian Control of the Military; Written in 1781 by the British Negotiator of the First American Treaty of Peace by Richard Oswald (UVA Press, 1953). Book cart.

- The Discoveries of John Lederer, with Unpublished Letters by and about Lederer to Governor John Winthrop, Jr., and an Essay on the Indians of Lederer's Discoveries by Douglas L. Rights and William P. Cumming (UVA Press, 1958). Book cart.

- Notes on the Professors for whom the University of Virginia Halls and Residence Houses are Named by Harry Clemons (UVA Press, 1961). Book cart.

- Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling (Bloomsbury, 2011). Publisher.

- The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds by Richard Crossley (Princeton University Press, 2011). Gift.

- Printed Americana in the Harlan Crow Library: A First Progress Report. With an Annotated Checklist of 250 Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides Acquired from 2003 to 2009 by Stephen Weissman (Harlan Crow Library, 2010). Gift.

- Exceptional Manuscripts in the Harlan Crow Library by Joe Rubinfine and Ryan Lord (Harlan Crow Library, 2010). Gift.