Based entirely upon the Lilly Library's collections, a new work joins the ranks
of bibliographical and historical publications that document the long,
complicated history of Mexico-Texas relations before 1849. Lilly Texana: One
Hundred Eighty Broadsides and Other Ephemera Relating to Texas, Printed and
Published in Mexico before 1849 in the Lilly Library of Indiana University, by
Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., describes a significant body of materials in the Lilly
Library's collections pertaining to Texas history that until now has been
generally unrecognized or not reported to exist in the copy described. Most of
the included items are not found in Thomas Streeter's seminal Bibliography of
Texas, the primary work in this area, or in other sources. Several entries
represent the discovery of another copy of an item that Streeter believed to
exist in only a single example.
National Book Auctions, located in Ithaca, NY, recently sold a Maurice Sendak pencil on paper sketch for an impressive
hammer price of $4,250. This 1974 (9" by 7 1/2") sketch by Sendak is
matted and includes Sendak's signature below the drawing as well as an
explanatory note to the animators in blue ball point pen. This drawing served as
a study for the animators who worked on Sendak's "Really Rosie" (1975) video
musical cartoon based on the Nutshell Library with music by Carole King.
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey also Includes Specially Commissioned Building Models Showing Palladio's Profound Influence on American Architecture
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