A.J. Liebling, author of The Sweet Science, The Earl of Louisiana, and Between Meals, New Yorker writer par excellence, famously remarked that he could “write better than anyone who could write faster, and faster than anyone who could write better.” This group of material, from the collection of Michael Zinman, spans his entire career, with a manuscript literary notebook from his college days, including letters to Dr. Leo Stone (a Dartmouth classmate and lifelong friend), editorial correspondence revealing a previously unknown pseudonym, the dedication copy of Back Where I Came From and other intimate association copies, and the Cartier-Bresson portrait, inscribed to him by the photographer.

A new year brings a list of freshly catalogued acquisitions. Among our new arrivals you'll find a first edition, first issue of Darwin's The Descent of Man; a first edition, first state of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying; and a first edition, limited numbered issue of African Game Trails, signed by Roosevelt.

The countdown to the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States is well underway, and, like many of you, we've been binge-watching the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution. The use of original documents to tell the story of America, a hallmark of Burns’s work, has been impressive.

You'll find items featured within the documentary in this catalogue of 76 books and manuscripts relating to the American Revolution.

Spires, quatrefoils, gargoyles, ravens, and ghouls...haunted castles and mysterious churches...these books exist in the murky vaulted transept at the meeting of literature and architecture. This catalogue of works in "the only proper style"—that is, of course, Gothic—includes the first American edition of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, the first edition of Poe's Raven, and the first printing with original dust jacket of Faulkner's Sound and Fury.