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Congratulations to Floyd and Greg!

21 Monday Sep 2015

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On Saturday night at the Marriott Library’s first ever “Appreciation Celebration,” the Gregory C. Thompson Award was officially unveiled and bestowed to long-time library supporter and dear friend, Floyd O’Neil. The award was created in Greg’s name to represent the many contributions that Greg has made to the library over the course of the last 30 (plus) years and for his development of an extraordinary Special Collections division. Congratulations to both Floyd and Greg! The University of Utah
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Book of the Week – Wo/Men at Work

03 Monday Jun 2013

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AIGA, award, BFK, binding, Book Arts Program, Cheltenham Italic, Claire Taylor, Copper Ingot, Copper Ingot award, David Wolske, Emily Tipps, Franklin Gothic, Greg Thompson, Laura Decker, letterpress, Linotype, Marnie Powers-Torrey, pamphlet, paper, papers, photopolymer plates, Red Butte Press, Rives Heavyweight, sans serif, serif, typeface, typefaces, W-fold, W-fold pamphlet

Wo/Men at Work, 2012, Cover
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Wo/Men at Work
Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, 2012
N7433.4 W65 2012

Three texts (“Consuming labor: a preface to Wo/Men at Work” by Matt Basso and Andrew Farnsworth, “Cooking from Scratch” by Judy Blunt, and “Everything’s dangerous: an essay from the 1941 collection Men at Work” by Ralph Powell) printed in a W-fold pamphlet. Titles printed on opposite covers. From the colophon: “…Book Arts Program staff contributors are Managing Director Marnie Powers-Torrey, Creative Director David Wolske, Laura Decker, Claire Taylor, Becky Thomas and Emily Tipps. David designed and typeset the text. The typefaces, evocative of the 1930s and ‘40s printshop vernacular, are as follows: bold titling is Hamilton, a revival of a popular 19th century wood type; bylines and colophon are Franklin Gothic, a workhorse sans serif found in printshops across America; italic subheadings are Cheltenham Italic, a ubiquitous early 20th century serif design; and the main body typeface is a version of Fairfield, released in 1939 and designed for the Linotype machine. Claire and Laura produced the saddle and pressure cooker drawings, respectively, in dialogue with the essays and one another…Andrew [Farnsworth], Dayna Kerns, and Chris Dunsmore, under the direction of Book Arts staff, letterpress-printed the imagery and text from photopolymer plates on Rives Heavyweight and BFK papers. Emily oversaw binding design and production of the W-fold pamphlet…Associate Director for Special Collection Greg Thompson provided the committed support that helped make this endeavor a reality.” Edition of twenty-six copies. University of Utah copies are letters ‘U’ and ‘V.’

Congratulations to the Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press staff for receiving one of 7 AIGA 100 Show Professional Copper Ingot awards for Wo/men at Work. The AIGA 100 Show showcases the year’s best design, advertising, and digital media. Of those pieces, a select few are awarded the Copper Ingot, one of the most sought-after communication awards in the Intermountain West. Visit http/aigaslc100show.com for information, to view pictures from the awards ceremony, and download the 100 Show Book PDF.

 

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Fox 13 News – Uniquely Utah: Rare book collection

04 Monday Feb 2013

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Fox 13 news featured a segment highlighting the recent donation to the Rare Books Division. Watch the clip below.

Uniquely Utah: Rare book collection

Featuring appearances from: Greg Thompson, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Alison Conner, Rare Books Curator

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Major Donation to Rare Books

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Alice Liddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Cheshire Cat, Cyril Bathurst Judge, fairy tales, George MacDonald, gift inscription, gilt, Greg Thompson, Henry Kingsley, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, Michael Sharpe, pictorial cloth bindings, preliminary blank, Punch

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The White Rabbit

Mad Hatter
Alice meets the Queen

A first edition, second printing of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1866) and a first edition of Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872) join the Rare Books Department, Special Collections. The anonymous donation was facilitated by Michael Thompson of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books, Los Angeles, California. We are thankful for the generosity of the donor and indebted to Michael Thompson for his friendship.

“This is an important and very welcomed addition to the J. Willard Marriott Library,” said Greg Thompson, Associate Dean of Special Collections. The value of the books is estimated at $30,000.

The books are in their original gilt pictorial cloth bindings. The inside front boards bear two bookplates, one of Harvard scholar Cyril Bathurst Judge (b. 1888), the other of book collector Michael Sharpe. A gift inscription on the preliminary blank of Through the Looking Glass is dated December 25, 1871, one month before official publication.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s now-famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was intended solely for Alice Liddell and her two sisters. Dodgson made the story up to engage the bored children during a series of outings. Alice asked Dodgson to write the story down. Dodgson presented his manuscript to Alice as a Christmas gift in 1864.

Friend and novelist Henry Kingsley saw the manuscript and encouraged Dodgson to publish the book. Dodgson consulted another friend, George MacDonald. Macdonald, a popular writer of fairy tales and fantasy, read the story to his children, who thoroughly approved of it. Macdonald’s six-year-old son is said to have declared that he “wished there were 60,000 copies of it.”

Dodgson prepared the manuscript for publication, expanding the 18,000 word original to 35,000 words and adding, among other characters and scenes, the Cheshire Cat and “A Mad-Tea Party.” The first published edition included illustrations by John Tenniel, a cartoonist for the magazine, Punch. The edition of 4,000 copies was released, under the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll,” in time for Christmas in December of 1865, carrying 1866 as the publication date.

By 1884, 100, 000 copies had been printed.

Dodgson began writing Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There in 1869. The first edition was of 9000 copies. It was bound in the same red cloth, a color requested by Dodgson, as Alice’s Adventures.

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Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

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Rare Books in the News

31 Wednesday Oct 2012

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Special Collections was a top story on the channel 2, KUTV, nightly news.

Featuring appearances from: Greg Thompson, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Alison Conner, Rare Books Curator

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Inspirations Newsletter Fall 2012

21 Friday Sep 2012

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Check out some of the exciting rare books news reported in the J. Willard Marriott Library’s newsletter, Inspirations Fall 2012.

Snowsports Builder, Greg Thompson
Best of State, Special Collections
Rare Book Featured in National Exhibition
Edward Abbey Collections Is Major Donation to Special Collections

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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

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