Categories for Rare Books
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Rare Books
The Weird and The Wonderful:
Romeyn Hough’s American Woods
Romeyn Hough’s plan was ambitious: a 15-volume set featuring veneers from every American tree (or, as even his prospectus admitted, “at least the most important”)… Read More
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Rare Books
Babbitt: The Single Book that Explains American Life
In the midst of a stultified seminar, a somewhat exasperated professor posited the following question to me and my weary-eyed cohorts. “If you had to pick a single book to… Read More