Beinecke Library Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Journal of the Federal Convention
United States Constitutional Convention
James Madison b. #OTD Journal of the Federal Convention of 1787, manuscript copy in the hand of James Madison of the Journal made by William Jackson as Secretary of the Convention in https://t.co/zrppn3taKY https://t.co/wOQLuXuYpE
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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, holograph manuscript, corrected & bound, in hand of Julian Hawthorne. From: Nathaniel Hawthorne collection Complete work digitized https://t.co/p5CoyZ1WYd Includes letter, dated April 25, 1887, from Julian Hawthorne to Benjamin H. Ticknor. https://t.co/Wy9HD560Zq
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
I, too, am America. Langston Hughes his own copy of The Weary Blues, used for lecture programs https://t.co/PmvqwWedOZ typescripts in Langston Hughes Papers: https://t.co/NGHxzkmxDi https://t.co/4YPKirf54l
Paperback, 2022
$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jazz Age: Chronicles, Volume Two
Ted Slampyak
New @YaleLibrary Book Talk series launches w/ @Debby_Applegate bio of a Jazz Age brothel owner; story: https://bit.ly/3LRQY4p Talk, March 2, 4:30pm online, info: https://bit.ly/3HfjRUv https://t.co/kJRiiBjtaA
Paperback, 2011
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Gustave Doré
Eugene Oneill's "The Ancient Mariner" Draft, holograph, corrected, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons) https://t.co/dGM9gIJiXK From: Eugene O'Neill collection https://t.co/Mz2vzI49lB https://t.co/oEzzniJWJx
Paperback, 1970
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel
John Le Carré
"Watch George Smiley, he's really going places." back cover blurb, Call for the dead by John Le Carré https://t.co/K77U9jawVD also Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy https://t.co/AoBuwheMAb among 20+ Le Carré titles in Pforzheimer Intelligence Collection; David Cornwell b. #OTD https://t.co/KKeyQicTqr
Paperback, 2012
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
De L'esprit Des Loix,
Charles Secondat De Montesquieu
Montesquieu (b #OTD 1689) "As virtue is necessary in a republic, and in a monarchy honor, so fear is necessary in a despotic government ... " De l'Esprit des Loix https://t.co/4gihgf0f52 Nugent trans https://t.co/uqfA5BWhW4 https://t.co/h26BSe2ZJ9
Out of stock

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here, a novel by Sinclair Lewis 1st ed, 1935 https://t.co/mSGs4oKaSG Czech, 1936 https://t.co/WFzjT6ARtm Finnish, 1936 https://t.co/bDpxgs7gGf German, 1936 https://t.co/z3g48HxToC (published by Querido Amsterdam, printed Czechoslovakia) Gift of author #YaleAlumni https://t.co/RF4a687imV
Paperback, Mass Market, 2014
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lyrical Ballads: With Other Poems; Volume II
William Wordsworth
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, & autograph manuscript poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, volume II (London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co., Bristol, 1800). https://t.co/qHBdL9gDmi https://t.co/QmNFbNnpT6
Paperback, 2023
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Frog Prince and Other Stories
Walter Crane
From: Cinderella picture book containing Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Valentine and Orson / with the original coloured designs by Walter Crane Puss in Boots Valentine and Orson. 1911 https://t.co/38Og46dJRT https://t.co/R5bQ7FgmsI
Paperback, 2018
$18.02$9.01 + Free shipping50% off your first book