Bancroftiana, Number 124 Spring 2004: Desiderata, New Keepsake

Desiderata

Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books that the library needs. We would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of any of the books listed below. If you can help, please telephone Bonnie Bearden, Rare Books Acquisitions Assistant, (510) 642-8171, or you may send a fax to (510) 643-2548, or send e-mail to: bbearden@library.berkeley.edu

We would like to thank all of the many donors who have responded to the article on the Baedeker guidebooks that we have begun to collect. There are still many gaps, so please consider giving the library your old guidebooks.

RARE / LITERARY
Beatitude. San Francisco: 1969—
Lack issues nos. 2, 12. (We are slowly filling in the gaps in this seminal San Francisco beat magazine. We received issue number 1 from Carolyn M. Jones in 2002.)

California Feminist Presses:
Along with the other UC libraries, Bancroft is acquiring all of the published work and archives of specific California presses. We find there are many retrospective titles, however, that we lack. The publishers often do not have all of their back titles either, so we are hoping some of you can help us fill in the gaps.

Post Apollo Press:
Adnan, Etel. Sitt Marie Rose. 1990.
Vitray-Meyerovitch, Eva de. Rumi and Sufism. 1987.

Kelsey St Press:
Duane, Kit. A Girl Named Hero. 1976. Mother Earth, Father Time. 1977.
Rosenwasser, Rena. Elephants & Angels. 1984.
Dienstfrey, Patricia. Small Salvations. 1987. Trade and ltd. ed.
Kizer, Carolyn. The Ungrateful Garden.

Third Woman Press:
Umpierre, Luz Maria. Y Otras Desgracias (And other misfortunes), 1985. The Blickling Homilies: The John H. Scheide Library, Titusville, Pennsylvania. Edited by Rudolph Willard. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1960. Series title: Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile; v. 10.

Hass, Robert. Field Guide. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Hdbd ed. First edition of Hass’s first book, issued simultaneously in paper and hardcover. Bancroft lacks the hardcover edition.

Hejinian, Lyn. Wicker: A Collaborative Poem. Boulder: Rodent Press, 1996. Laughing Horse. Lack nos. 16, 21

Lenglet Dufresnoy, Nicolas, 1674-1755. Recueils de Dissertations Anciennes et Nouvelles, Sur les Apparitions, les Visions et les Songes. Avignon, Leloup, 1751.

Matrix (Andoversford, England). Whittington Press. No. 3 of this fine printing/ literary magazine never arrived on our standing order and is not available from the publisher.

WESTERN AMERICANA

Abbey, Edward. The Brave Cowboy; An Old Tale in a New Time. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1956.
Andrade, Mary J. Cinco de Mayo en San Jose. Los Gatos, CA: Village Printers, 1987.
Beverly, Bob. Hobo of the Rangeland. Lovington, NM: 1940.
California State Water Project Atlas. Sacramento: The Dept. 1999.
Euryalus: Tales of the Sea: A Few Leaves From the Diary of a Midshipman. London: J.D. Potter, 1860.

New Keepsake

Manuscript, “Interviewing the Interviewer,” 1870.

The forty-seventh keepsake of the Friends of The Bancroft Library, Mark Twain: Press Critic, includes two previously unpublished essays by America’s favorite author, “Interviewing the Interviewer” and “The American Press.” University Librarian and Professor of Journalism Thomas C. Leonard offers an introduction that explores Twain’s “lifelong worry over the American press.”

Copies of this volume were recently mailed to members of the Friends for the 2001-2002 year. Additional copies are available from the Bancroft online store:
http://stores.yahoo.com/bancroft-store/