Speaking of Books -August 10th, 2004

The Joslin Hall Rare Books Newsletter
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Well, July turns to August and the Book Elves are enjoying themselves at the beach every afternoon (apparently you can catalog books at the beach -I was doubtful, but they assure me that it is true, and why would they lie?). They are just about resigned to the fact that Nomar ("Nomaah") Garciapara is not a Red Sox anymore... although tiny, muffled sobs can still be heard echoing through the Book Cave in the middle of the night. We've also gone directly from the cloudy, rainy and cool April-like weather we had been having to real August weather- hot and humid. Nothing really to do but spend the evening on the porch with a tall glass of ice-cold lemonade and a good book. Oh, and speaking of books...

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Our Just Catalogued pages have just been updated. We have a large selection of books about antiques, including furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, fakes, souvenir spoons, and much more.

Highlights include:

-Martha Boyer's excellent 1959 China Trade study, "Japanese Export Lacquers from the Seventeenth Century in the National Museum of Denmark".

-Two nice early catalogs by Arthur Clement, his 1947 catalog of New Jersey ceramics, and his scarcer 1944 catalog "Notes on American Ceramics, 1607-1943".

-A rather scarce and odd privately published pamphlet by Jim Frink, "Indians in Sterling. A Pictorial Catalog of Souvenir Spoons Commemorating North American Indians".

-A number of reasonably priced books by Umberto Eco, all signed.

-A copy of Geofrey Godden's somewhat difficult-to-find book on Stevengraphs, still the best reference work on these Victorian collectibles.

-Catherine Lippert's rather uncommon 1975 Indianapolis Museum of Art catalog on Greentown Glass.

-A nice copy of Young's important 1913 V&A catalog, "Old English Pattern Books of the Metal Trades. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection in the Museum".

... and much more!

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"The Corning Glass Center" -Corning Glass Works, 1958. A littler hardcover handbook illustrating some of the exhibits at the Corning Glass Center, the laboratories, glass blowers, various things glass is used for and wonderful new types of glass (including the very useful new "fibrous glass"), etc. If you would like this send us an email at office@joslinhall.com with the subject line "Glass". We only have one of these, so we will randomly draw the name of one of you on Thursday and send it out to the lucky winner!

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UPCOMING CATALOG-

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Victoriana

Victorian Arts, Lives & Times. Welcome to the wonderful, wacky world of the Victorians! This new list has just gone to the printer and will be mailed early next week. Send us your mailing address if you would like a free copy.

"There are no Victorias in the twentieth century who have the right to say 'We are not amused' " [Saturday Review, Feb 7th, 1931]

OUR CURRENT PRINTED CATALOG-
"SUMMERTIME"
Recent Acquisitions and other interesting books for Summer, 2004 features 263 books and is now available. Send us your mailing address if you would like a free copy.

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"Mr. Polk's War -The Conflict No One Wanted" by Bon & Jan Young, Hawthorne Books, 1968. A hardcover young adult's book about the Mexican War of 1846.

If you would like this, send us an email at office@joslinhall.com with the subject line "Polk". We only have one copy, so we will randomly draw the name of one of you on Thursday and send it out to the lucky (?) winner!

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'Walden' This Week, and all Year Round...

This week marks the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden". But why just celebrate this week? The internet provides some great websites devoted to Thoreau and his works all year round, including the Thoreau Society, which was established in 1941 (and, of course, they have a bookshop where you can buy books, tapes, mugs, videos, and more...) The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods grew out of the Walden Woods Project, an attempt to save the surrounding "Walden Woods" from development. The Institute is now one of the leading Thoreau and Walden-focused educational organizations. Want to read "Walden" online? Need a copy of the text that is instantly searchable? Here is one. And finally, want to get a bit deeper into Thoreau and the rest of the Transcendentalists? The Trancendentalists website has many useful resources and links.

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And now for something completely different... "Growing Your Herbs Business" by Bertha Reppert. Storey Communications, 1994. A Softcover book about, well... setting up and developing a herb-related business. If you would like this, send us an email at office@joslinhall.com with the subject line "Herbs". We only have one copy, so we will randomly draw the name of one of you on Thursday and send it out to the lucky winner!

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Don't you just hate it when you have leftover lox? That may seem like an odd question for my fellow smoked salmon lovers, but we've found a place to buy really good stuff fairly cheaply by the pound recently, and so the question has come up once or twice. Then we came across a fast, easy way to convert it into a delicious, cool, healthy (well, "healthy" is pretty relative word) Summer dip. Just take some plain yogurt and make yogurt cheese out of it by draining it through a paper coffee filter for a few hours (this gives the yogurt a thicker, cream cheese-like consistency). Then dump the yogurt cheese, lox, some fresh lemon juice and a little dill (all to taste) into the blender and set on "puree" for a few minutes, until it is smooth. You can make it thicker by adding more yogurt cheese or thinner by adding straight yogurt. It keeps for a few days, but our experience is that it won't be around very long...

That's going to do it for today. I hope you find some interesting books on our Just Catalogued pages, and now I have to go find the blender...

-Forrest

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