Authors Collection
This is a small collection of first edition and autographed publications. It includes poetry, short stories, essays, and/or sketches by such authors as Gertrude Stein, Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Wells, and WSU professors Gary Pacernick and Robert G. Thobaben.
Also includes a copy of The Last Will and Testament of Gertrude Stein.
- Dates
- Creation: 1879-1976
- Extent
- 0.5 linear feet
- Language of Materials
- English
- Script
- Latin
Baker, William D., ed. The Widening Circle: Gertrude Stein 1874-1947 (a centennial issue). [Dayton, Ohio: Wright State University, c. 1973].
- Dates
- Creation: 1973
Hitchcock, George. The Dolphin with the Revolver in its Teeth. Santa Barbara, California: Unicorn Press, 1967. One of one thousand paper-bound “trade” editions printed on Simpson Eggshell.
- Dates
- Creation: 1967
Hoobler, Idella Clarence. Poems of the New England Coast and Others. Worcester, Mass., 1879. Published by the author.
- Dates
- Creation: 1879
Oates, Joyce Carol. [misc. works published between 1970 and 1974]:
a. Cupid and Psyche. New York: Albondocani Press, 1970. First Edition. Number 40 of 226 copies. Signed by the author.
b. Dreaming America and Other Poems. [New York]: Aloe Editions, 1973. Number 99 of 176 copies signed by the author.
c. The Girl. Cambridgr, Mass: Pomegranate Press, 1974. First Edition. Number 177 of 300 copies designed, illustrated, and hand-printed by Karl Klopp. Signed by the author and the illustrator.
d. Plagiarized Material by Fernandes. In Sparrow 19. [Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, April 1974.
e. A Posthumous Sketch. In Sparrow 10. [Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, July 1973.
f. Wooded Forms. [New York: Albondocani Press, c. 1972].
- Dates
- Creation: 1970-1974
Pacernick, Gary. [Poems]. Columbus, Ohio: Professor H. Quinn Press, 197?.
a. The poem “Credence” was printed in an edition of 50 copies. The edition is number 43 and is signed by the author.
- Dates
- Creation: circa 1970-1979
Piediscalzi, Nicholas and Robert G. Thobaben, eds. From Hope to Liberation: Towards a New Marxist-Christian Dialogue. Contains signed message from editor Robert G. Thobaben.
- Dates
- Creation: 1974
Stein, Gertrude. [works published in 1927 and 1932]:
a. An Elucidation. [?]: Transition, 1927. The text of this printing is rearranged; Transition had previously printed it in the wrong order.
b. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories. Paris: Plain Edition, 1933. From an edition of 500 copies.
- Dates
- Creation: 1927-1932
Stein, Gertrude. [works published between 1946 and 1948]:
a. The Gertrude Stein First Reader and Three Plays. Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1946.
b. In Savoy. London: Pushkin Press, [1946].
c. Two (Hitherto Unpublished) Poems. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1948. First Edition. Number 414 of 415.
- Dates
- Creation: 1946-1948
Stein, Gertrude
a. Lucretia Borgia: A Play. New York: Albondocani Press, 1968. First Edition, Number 28 of 150 copies.
b. [Last Will and Testament]. Baltimore. Distributed by the Law Offices of Levin, Gann & Hankin, 1974.
- Dates
- Creation: 1968-1974
Turco, Lewis. The Sketches of Lewis Turco and LIVEVIL: A Mask. Cleveland: American Weave Press, c. 1962.
a. American Weave Award Chapbook for 1962, signed by the poet. From an edition of 350 copies “designed and printed…from handset 9-point Stymie type and on Carfax egg-shell finish paper.” Gift of Lewis Turco.
- Dates
- Creation: 1962
Voznesenky, Andrei. [Poem Read at the 200th Presentation of Anti-Worlds]. Translated by Lola Linel and Merrill Sparks. Santa Barbara, California: Unicorn Press, 1968. Reprinted from Unicorn Folio, Series Two, Number One.
- Dates
- Creation: 1968
Wells, Barbara. [Etchings]. 8 plates. 1976. Small hand-bound in alligator vinyl portraying 1975-76 Louisville adventures.
- Dates
- Creation: 1976
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