Our Growing Collections

RUDOLPH ELLENBOGEN

Cohen (Gerald) gift. Three multilingual dictionaries have been pre¬
sented to the libraries by Mr. Gerald Cohen (Ph.D., 1971). The
works include two by Jean Heym: Novyi Rossiisko-Frantuzsko-
Nemetskii Slovar, Moscow, 1799, and Dictionnaire Portatif ou
Dictionnaire Frangois-Russe-Allemand, Riga and Leipzig, 1805, four
volumes; and one dictionary by Philipp Reif, Novye Parellelnye
Slovari, St. Petersburg, 1898. This last work adds English to the
Russian, French, and German vocabularies found in Heym's
works. The 1799 Heym is particularly useful to scholars working
on late-eighteenth-century dialect, accent, and translation and
may be the only copy of this work in the United States.

Cohen (Herman and Aveve) Fund. Three books associated with
Leonard Baskin were acquired for the collections on the Herman
and Aveve Cohen Rare Book Fund this year including: Jose
Yglesias's One German Dead, with a composite portrait of the
author by Leonard Baskin, printed by the Eremite Press, 1988,
one of 110 copies signed by the artist; and two books printed at
the Gehenna Press: Stanley Kunitz's The Coat Without a Seam:
Sixty Poeftts, 1930-1972, 1974, one of 150 copies, bound in half
vellum and decorated-paper over boards; and James Baldwin's
Gypsy and Other Poems, 1989, one of 275 copies with a signed and
numbered etched portrait. Among the other books acquired on
the Cohen Fund were Arthur Miller's previously unpublished
Homely Girl: A Life, with ten original etchings by Louise
Bourgeois, one of one hundred copies printed at the Stinehour
Press, signed by the author and the illustrator; and The Stanbrook
Abbey Press: A Bibliography and Checklist, compiled by David
Butcher, one of thirty-five copies printed at the Whittington
Press and bound in full Oasis, issued with ephemera and specimen
pages printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press.

Costikyan gift. For addition to his papers, Mr. Edward N.
Costikyan (A.B., 1947; LL.B., 1949) has added thirty-five hun-
 

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