Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

A.A.U.P. gift. The Association of American University Presses
has selected Columbia as one of the six university libraries to re¬
ceive the award books which are selected for inclusion in the an¬
nual A.A.U.P. Book Shows.The initial gift includes the exhibits for
the first five years, 1965 through 1969. Each annual selection has
twenty-five titles published by university presses and selected by
a jury of distinguished book designers, typographers, and graphic
artists, on the basis of their creative design and bookmaking tech¬
niques in composition, printing, and binding. The Libraries al¬
ready have a complete file of the American Institute of Graphic
Arts "Fifty Books of the Year" awards, and the gift of the
A.A.U.P. adds another major resource for the student of publish¬
ing and book design.

A.LG.A. gift. The American Institute of Graphic Arts has added
the Fifty Books of the Year, 1970, to the complete file of the award
winners in the Libraries.

Baer-Cooper gift. Messrs. Albert iM. Baer and George V. Cooper
(A.B., 1917), and an anonymous donor, have presented an impor¬
tant group of letters by the contemporary Japanese novelist Yukio
Mishima, who committed ritual suicide in Tokyo last November
at the age of forty-five. He was undoubtedly the best-known
writer in his own country and the Japanese author most widely
published abroad. The four autograph letters, written in I'.nglish,
and one cablegram, were sent in 1961 and 1962 to iMr. Herbert
Machiz, who directed .Mishima's plays at the Players Theatre in
New York. They are exceptionally fine letters in which the Japan¬
ese writer discusses his play Tropical Tree, No drama, Tennessee

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