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Authors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-115
 

Authors Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-115

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., 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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, 1967

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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, 1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3

Hoobler, Idella Clarence. Poems of the New England Coast and Others. Worcester, Mass., 1879. Published by the author.

Dates
Creation: 1879

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1970-1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

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, circa 1970-1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

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, 1927-1932

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7

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, 1946-1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8

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, 1968-1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9

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, 1962

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10

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, 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11

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, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12

Wells, Barbara. [Etchings]. 8 plates. 1976. Small hand-bound in alligator vinyl portraying 1975-76 Louisville adventures.

Dates
Creation: 1976
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