Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.
  • By any other name

    November 3, 2008

    “Rose is a Rose is a Rose…” a wax seal for embossing envelopes , from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers , ...
  • Queer Zine Explosion!

    October 30, 2008

    Issues of queer zines, ca. 1990-2000 from a growing collection at Beinecke Library.
  • Copying for pleasure

    October 27, 2008

    Examples of “Xerox art” books made by a group of artists and writers in the 1970s and 1980s. A large collection was acquired by Beinecke Library in the summer...
  • The Dog Book Blog

    October 23, 2008

    or rather, the Dog-shaped papier-mâché bookshelf blog entry. A true gem of an item from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection, highlighted by expert cataloger...
  • TV killed the Cinema star

    October 20, 2008

    A run of issues of Les cahiers de la television , Paris, 1962-1963. With contributions from the likes of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: “Voir la peinture à la T. V...
  • The Comical Mélange

    October 16, 2008

    An anonymous book of humor, published in London in 1833 by A.U. Thiselton - with many illustrations similar to the work of Rodolphe Töpffer. Foreshadowings of...
  • La Tuies

    October 9, 2008

    A run of issues of a magazine, La Tuies , from Barcelona, 1923-1927. Edited by Agusti Piraces, this satirical serial tended toward the outwardly ribald.
  • Oh we're so pretty . . .

    October 7, 2008

    A promotional magazine for the band, ca. 1977: with the iconic image by Jamie Reid:
  • The Future of the Future

    October 2, 2008

    A complete run of Futura, a visual poetry broadsheet published by Hansjorg Mayer, 1965-1968. With contributions by Edward Lucie Smith Diter Rot and Frieder Nake