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Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Città del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) (Biblioteca Italiana) by Tommaso Campanella

The Aleph and other stories, 1933-1969,: Together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay by Jorge Luis Borges

Illuminations by Rimbaud

The Devil by Amelia Wilson

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Essais Extraits by Montaigne

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Tagsfrench literature (26), asian religions (24), books about books (16), biography (14), poetry (12), lit crit (11), sciences (10), language (9) — see all tags

GroupsAncient and Medieval Manuscripts, Antiquarian Books, French Connection, French literature, 19th & 20th century, Medieval Europe, Occult Hash Slingers, Rare, Old or Offbeat

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ray Bradbury, Andre Breton, Richard P. Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Haruki Murakami, Gérard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tom Robbins, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Shared favorites)

About me Quoi de neuf? I have an MA in French, and I'm working on an MLS with an emphasis in Rare Books and Special Collections. I'm just WILD about incunabula, illuminated manuscripts, famous (and crazy) illustrators, french and italian literature, maps, and maritime history (pirates, exploration, shipwrecks!) I also dig the occult, the romantics, surrealism, horror movies, cosmology and string theory. And other things.

http://scriptorium.columbia.edu/

About my library If I could afford to buy the books I really wanted to own, I wouldn't be a librarian;)

Real nameAnna Culbertson

LocationNYC

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Member sinceApr 4, 2007

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I thought I'd read most of Beckett, but don't recognize
Premiere Amour. I'll have to check it out. Zola is also
one of my favorites. La Bete Humaine is a classic.
Have you read Francis Carco? Another french noir.
Ron

posted by tros at 1:47 pm (EST) on Oct 19, 2007

The best that I can come up with is Quod di bene vortant, but I've no idea what it means!
Quite a lot of catalogues have 17th c. stuff with that in the title though, mainly sermons etc. It might be worth posting a message on the group Ask Librarything. If you find out, let me know: that'll really buy me now!

posted by mrsradcliffe at 7:05 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

No I haven't done much rare book cataloguing alas! I worked as a graduate trainee for six months which is recognised by the Uk equivalent of ALA, so I had training for modern books. I watched a colleague catalogue rare books from scrtach - it looks hard but much more interesting, thinking about provenance and bindings etc. I think the trick seems to be in thinking about what potential researchers might find useful and making sure to add it. It's fascinating stuff!

posted by mrsradcliffe at 4:10 am (EST) on Oct 10, 2007

Hello,
I saw that you've posted a few times lately on the cataloguers who LT thread and I thought I'd say hi.
I'm in the UK studying for an MSc and would like to move into rare books librarianship at some future point. I'm currently trying to learn Latin from scratch (harder than I thought!) I'm interested in the objects themselves but also in creating the bib record that will unite reader and item, allowing the books themselves to be located and consulted. I enjoy organising knowledge.
I really love 18th and 19th c. travel books, and 15th c. books of maps and travellers' tales of exploration. Fascinating.

posted by mrsradcliffe at 5:04 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2007

I spelled like wrong.

posted by arijin at 9:58 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2007

That sounds liek a worthy idea... though, now that they're organized, the point becomes moot.

posted by arijin at 9:57 pm (EST) on Oct 1, 2007

Click on the cover under your library catalog page and there is an option "change cover." It takes you to a screen where it gives you a bunch of choices. If the one you actually have isn't there, you can upload it. I have a few left to upload. I don't have a scanner, but, for many of them, I was able to Google them and find an image that matched somewhere, which I then saved and uploaded.

In my library, right not, if you see a cover, that's the one I have. If you don't, it meas I couldn't find it anywhere on the internet, and I need to scan it some day.

Now, go be OCD like your cousin!

posted by arijin at 2:01 pm (EST) on Jul 18, 2007

Hey. Are you as OCD about getting the right cover on your page as I am?

posted by arijin at 7:51 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2007

They're OLD!!! From when I was little.

In one minute, I will be done adding my library.

posted by arijin at 7:37 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2007

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