The Rosenbach Museum & Library here presents many of its best-known volumes & re-examines oft-told tales of the Rosenbach brothers (Philip & Dr. A.S.W.) & their legendary buying & selling of remarkable books. As a result of extensive research in the Rosenbach Company Archive & in the papers of English libraries & collectors, Leslie Morris has reconstructed the Rosenbachs famous purchases from the Holford, Phillipps, & York Minster collections in considerable detail & has compiled -- for the first time -- checklists of the 297 individual titles acquired by the Rosenbach Co. in these private treaty sales. This exhibition could include only a selection of volumes from the complete checklists. Illustrations.

Rosenbach Abroad: In Pursuit of Books in Private Collections

Leslie A. Morris

Literature & Fiction

Rosenbach Museum & Library

The second catalogue in a series documenting the private treaty purchases made by Dr. Rosenbach in Europe in the 1920s. While some of these stories have been related before, this cat. goes beyond the anecdotal to document the specifics of these private transactions. The story of the dispersal of these books & manuscripts from collector to dealer & then back to collectors, private & institutional, helps make concrete the debt American collectors owe to those of the past. Contents: A note on the checklists; The Helen s Tower Lib.; Printed books, & Manuscripts; The Percy Lib. & the Earls of Caledon: Printed books, & Manuscripts; The Lough Fea & Ettington Lib. of Evelyn Philip Shirley; The Grosvenor Lib.: & Printed books, Illustrations.

Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland

At first glance, Morris' book seems to be just an inspirational autobiography, detailing how a poor black girl from Long Branch, New Jersey overcame emotional problems and defied predictions of her societal demise to earn an undergraduate degree, with honors, from prestigious Simmons College and Master's Degrees from Boston College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before building an illustrious career in human services and public health. And it is that. But it is so much more. In addition to chronicling the good, bad and ugly of her life's journey and the close-knit black community of Long Branch's public housing projects, Morris does two important things that transcend her riveting personal story, both of which make her book a compelling read even if you have no connection to Long Branch and regardless of your racial background.

How Ya Like Me Now!

Self-published

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Books by Leslie A. Morris

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Rosenbach Abroad: In Pursuit of Books in Private Collections

Rosenbach Redux: Further Book Adventures in England and Ireland

How Ya Like Me Now!