Americana Collector
Author | : Charles Frederick Heartman |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Charles Frederick Heartman |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : America |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : America |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Kurt W. Zimmerman |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
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My essays and escapades span over thirty years of rare book hunting--an exciting journey that is ongoing. Many of my friends are rare book people, and much of my free time revolves around bookish pursuits. I can't recall a day without thinking about a book and seldom without handling one. I write regularly on my blog about rare books I've found and their history. Recently, my wife and I began plans to expand our library space by converting the attic above the garage, so it seems inevitable that the book you hold in your hand would come to fruition. If you're already a rare book hunter no further prelude is needed. If you have found this book through curiosity or happenstance, and it creates a spark within, I strongly encourage you to follow your own book hunting path. The rewards are great and the space concerns never-ending. Kurt Zimmerman is a highly regarded book collector and author. He has been collecting for over thirty years in two areas: association items related to book collecting history (currently 7,000+ items) and first editions of Latin American literature (over 2,000 items). He received his Master's in Library and Information Science degree from UT-Austin while completing a three year internship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. There he learned bibliography and rare books from the best in the field. He worked in the rare book trade and as director of the rare books & maps department at Butterfield & Butterfield auction house (now Bonham's) in San Francisco. Zimmerman is a co-founder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston. His established is popular blog bookcollectinghistory.com in 2011. The author can be reached directly at [email protected].
Author | : Charles Frederick Heartman |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Ann Fabian |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226233499 |
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton’s skull wound up in a collector’s cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world. With The Skull Collectors, eminent historian Ann Fabian resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange—and at times gruesome—story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battlefields, and the “rascally pleasure” of grave robbing, Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American history.
Author | : Harry L. Rinker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780911594041 |
A price guide devoted to today's collectibles, with collecting hints, histories, references, clubs, and museums.
Author | : W. Carew Hazlitt |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2020-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752320702 |
Reproduction of the original: Book Collector by W. Carew Hazlitt
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Art objects |
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