Special Collections Publications
Where no price is indicated, the publications listed below are
available free of charge. Contact Special
Collections to obtain copies. For publications where a price
is indicated, please send a check for the appropriate amount,
payable to "Washington University Libraries", to:
Department of Special Collections
Campus Box 1061
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
Please note that A Guide to The Modern Literary Manuscripts Collection (1985) is now back in print. A Guide to The Modern Literary Manuscripts may also be viewed online.
Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare. With an
essay by Douglas Dowd, Assistant Professor of Art. Introduction
and checklist by Anne Posega (1996)
Arthur Holly Compton: A Centennial Retrospective. Essay by
Carole Prietto, University Archivist (1992)
A Checklist of Video & Sound Recordings in the Department
of Special Collections. Compiled by Kevin Ray, Curator of
Manuscripts and Carole Prietto, University Archivist
(1992).
Curtain Time: Student Performing Arts at Washington
University. Essay and checklist by Carole Prietto, University
Archivist (1997) (The "Curtain Time" catalog may also be
viewed online)
Grotesques, Glass, Graham: Marriage of Masonry. By Jay
Kempen, Archives Assistant (1999). ("Grotesques, Glass Graham"
may also be viewed online)
Jay Wright: The American Sublime Ode: The Black Limbo.
By Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg
Professor of English at New York University (1998). $150.00 (Further details are
also available online)
James Merrill: Poet. Introduction by Holly Hall (1985)
(The Merrill catalog may also be viewed online)
A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars. An exhibit to
inaugurate the International Writers Center, selected by William
Gass, Director (1991). $10.00
type/script: notebooks: an examination. With an essay by
Kevin Ray, Head of Special Collections (1996)
Una Selva Oscura: Tom Philips' Inferno. With an esssay by
Kevin Ray, Head of Special Collections (1997).