Fighting Words: American Revolutionary War Pamphlets

10 Friday Aug 2012

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Fighting Words, 2012

Fighting Words, 2012

August 10–September 23

Exhibition: Fighting Words: American Revolutionary War Pamphlets

Curator: Alison Conner

Location: Special Collections Gallery, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4

Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00–6:00; Saturday, 9:00–6:00; Hours differ during University breaks and holidays.

The exhibition is FREE and open to the public.

Before the first shots were fired at the battle of Lexington and Concord, American colonists and British Imperialists had already begun to fight in print. Words could not win physical battles but they could fight on the ideological front. American and British pamphleteers struggled to determine the meaning of the revolution and what winning meant. Ultimately they would define what it meant to be an American. Fighting Words chronicles the pamphlet war from both sides of the Atlantic, and includes pieces by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, William Pitt, and many more.

Washington Post Review

15 Friday Jun 2012

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The Washington Post review of the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, 1812: A Nation Emerges featuring Karl Bodmer Aquatint from Rare Books.

Rare Books Goes to Washington!

15 Friday Jun 2012

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‘”1812: A Nation Emerges,” a bicentennial exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, commemorates a crucial moment in American history.

Through the gathering of stunning portraits by masters such as Gilbert Stuart, and unique objects such as a red velvet dress that belonged to Dolley Madison and the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war, “1812” presents a spectacular history of the conflict and its effects through the lives of extraordinary people.

The war of 1812 may have been a small war, but it had great consequences for our nation.’

Rare Books’ Karl Bodmer Aquatint Hangs in the National Portrait Gallery Exhibition

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Rare Book Paradise at 2012 California International Antiquarian Book Fair

31 Thursday May 2012

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Featuring Greg Thompson, Associate Dean for Special Collections at the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair

“Best of State”

21 Monday May 2012

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Special Collections Receives “Best of State” Award

J. Willard Marriott Library’s Special Collections Department (University of Utah) wins the Best of State Award in the category of “Educational Institution or Service.”

Congratulations, Katherine!

21 Monday May 2012

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Congratulations to Katherine Paterson, rare books assistant. She is one of five recipients of the Marriott Library Scholarship. Read her winning essay.

2012 Scholarship Essay_Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson

Katherine Paterson

Associated Press – Nuremberg Chronicle

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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500-year-old Nuremberg Chronicle book surfaces in Utah

“Luise Poulton, curator and head of rare books at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, called it “an exciting find,” but largely just because of the way it surfaced.

‘It’s that classic story,” said Poulton, who has several pages from another copy of a Nuremberg Chronicle on display. “You really never know what’s in your attic.'”

Second Annual Book Collector’s Evening

28 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Book Collector Incite Postcard

March 28, 2012
6:00 PM
Alta Club
100 East South Temple

Join the University of Utah’s Friends of the J. Willard Marriott Library for an eventful evening of rare books, a silent auction, and speaker Michael Vinson’s “Following Charlie Everitt on the Overland Trail in Search of Wagner-Camps and Other Western Rarities.” Ken Sanders, Ken Sanders Rare Books, will comment on two Utah writers and Luise Poulton, Marriott Library Rare Book Curator, will talk about the rare books on display from Special Collections.

The Evening will also include the opportunity to share your book collecting adventures and favorite books with fellow aficionados.

To attend: please contact Judy Jarrow at 801-581-3421 or judy.jarrow@utah.edu

Reservations required. Friends/Members: $40 Non-members: $45

The Indiana Gazette- Edward Abbey

18 Sunday Mar 2012

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Retrospective celebrates county-born writer’s work

An article in the Indiana Gazette features the Brave Cowboy: An Edward Abbey Retrospective exhibition and the highlights the rare books collection of Edward Abbey material.

“Poulton said editions of Abbey books as a whole aren’t especially rare, but a set of signed, first editions in excellent shape are — especially the first edition of the 1954 novel “Jonathan Troy,” Abbey’s first. She said Abbey hated it, expressing a desire to destroy all 5,000 prints. Nonetheless, he signed a copy for Hvolboll.”