Modern Books and Manuscripts

The collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts covers a wide range of subjects with strengthsin literature written in English outside the United States; American children's literature; the printing arts; LGBTQ writing; human sexuality and gender studies; playing cards;the history of hunting and fishing;and the history of finance.

  • Henri Chopin, part deux

    May 24, 2012

    Chopin’s library contains all kinds of quirky and fascinating volumes. Many are collections of dactylopoèmes (examples of which mentioned in last week...

  • Henri Chopin: An Introduction

    May 15, 2012

    At left: Chopin at a sound poetry performance. At right: sample dactylopoème or typewriterpoem. General Modern has recently acquired the library and archive of...

  • Paris, Bizarre

    May 6, 2009

    Bizarre , nos. 1-2; new series, nos. 1-46 (Paris, 1953-1968) Siné’s Cover for Bizarre, no. 11/12 (May 1959), a special issue devoted entirely to “...

  • The Cinema Industry and the Third Reich

    May 4, 2009

    Der Film-Kurier: Theater, Kunst, Varieté, Funk , 11 volumes (1935-1940). Over 850 issues of one of the most important trade journals of the German cinema...

  • Russian Satirical Magazines--Soviet Style

    May 4, 2009

    Buzotër (The Troublemaker) , nos. 1-3 (1924), 4-28 (1925), and 1-24 (1926). Three complete years, bound in two volumes, of a heavily illustrated Russian...

  • Bilibin's Folktales

    May 1, 2009

    Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin, Skazki , 6 vols. (St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovleniia Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901-1903). Cover of Skazki, no. 3 (May 18, 1902)...