Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

WEDNESDAY at PSNH (196 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510) POP-UP SHOP OPEN HOURS 11:00 - 6:00 PUBLICATION DEMONSTRATION (refreshments served) 5:00 – 6:00 PSNH at New Haven Pecha Kucha Matthew Stadler discusses Print on Demand, Literature, and the World using 20 images shown for 20 seconds each 6:30pm at Bentara

TUESDAY at PSNH (196 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510) POP-UP SHOP OPEN HOURS 11:00 - 6:00 PUBLICATION DEMONSTRATION (refreshments served) 5:00 – 6:00 PSNH on air (WNPR CT Public Radio) CURATOR INTERVIEW: Tim Young talks to Faith Middleton about making and destroying books 3:00pm ***

Publication Studio comes to the Elm City to redefine the social life of the book. A One-week Residency in the Coop Center for Creativity November 14 – 19, 2011

A souvenir from the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, an attraction that allowed visitors to view the moon through a giant telescope. The imagery for the attraction may be related to the Georges Méliès 1898 film "La Lune à un mètre" (or "The Astronomer's Dream")

A set of a popular card game. This edition published around 1850 by S. Hart & Co. in Philadelphia. No rules included.

Shades of Al Jaffee and MAD Magazine . . . A printed and folded novelty celebrating Louis XVIII, King of France, 1814-1824. (Published by J.B. Verzy, circa 1814). The piece unfolds to spell out the virtues of the man who ruled during the Bourbon Restoration.

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of American writer, poet, naturalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams.