Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Brown gift. To the collection of his papers and books Mr. James
Oliver Brown has added first editions of two novels by Ann Willets,
Never Give the Heart, 1951, and Sting of Glory, 19 54. Published by
Random House, the two works are among the earliest books that
Mr. Brown handled as a New York literary agent. Mr. Brown has
also donated two recent letters written to him by the novelist
Herbert Gold, and an inscribed first edition of Louis Auchincloss's
recently published collection of short stories. False Gods.

Carr gift. Professor Emeritus Arthur Carr has donated Gabriel
Kummonds's Seven Aspects of Solitude, a keepsake printed in 1988 at
the Plain Wrapper Press in Cottondale, Alabama; laid in are a letter
from the printer to the donor presenting the keepsake and an
amusing printer's card announcing the press's removal to Southern
California.

Coover gift. Mr. Christopher Coover (M.S. in L.S,, 1983) has
donated five rare editions, the earliest in date among them being a
volume containing two works by Petrus de Palude printed by Anton
Koberger in Nuremberg in 1496 and bound in contemporary
stamped pigskin, Sermones thesauri novi de Sanctis and Sermones qua-
drigesimales thesauri novi. In addition, Mr. Coover's gift includes a
first edition of Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies, London, 1815, and
two books from the library of Robert Southey: Baldassare
Bonifacio, Historia Ludicra, Brussels, 1656, inscribed "Robert
Southey. Brussels 1815." at the base of the engraved title page; and
Pierre Mambrun, Constantinus sive Idolatria debellata, Paris, 1668,
inscribed on the title, "Southey 1799."

Dalton gift. Dean Jack Dalton has presented a splendid copy of
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads,
with Other Poems, London, 1800, in two volumes bound by Riviere
& Son. The set is comprised of the second edition of volume 1 and
 

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