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contributions by George Anthiel, Samuel Beckett, Theodore
Dreiser, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, William Plomer,
Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.

Uhnann Fund. A group of fourteen productions of modern presses
have been acquired this year on the Uhnann Fund, endowed by
Mrs. Ruth U. Samuel in memory of her father, the late Albert
Uhnann. These include books printed at The Janus Press, Bird &
Bull Press, The Gehenna Press and the Raamin-Presse of Ham¬
burg. The Gehenna Press of Northampton, Massachusetts, is rep¬
resented by The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High
Court of Vendome, printed in 1964 in an edition of three hundred
copies. Issued in six unbound signatures, laid in a full morocco
portfolio, the work, edited by John Anthony Scott, is illusttated
with twenty-one etched portraits by Thomas Cornell of the lead¬
ers and precursors of rhe French revolution.

Another of the works acquired on the Ulmann Fund deserving
of special mention is Henry de Montherlant's La Releve du Matin,
illustrated with ten lithographs by Robert Delaunay. Published in
Paris in 1928, the work is the second of Delaunay's two books to
contain original illustrations. The Ulmann copy of La Releve du
Matin is printed on velin pur pi, and is uncut and unopened in the
original wrappers.