Library of Congress: ‘The Book that Saved a Life’

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Antiquarian Books, Kim, Library Of Congress, Rare Books, Rudyard Kipling, The History Channel

The History Channel has linked up with the Library of Congress by issuing short video documentaries on the “hidden treasures” housed by the Library.  The current video is about a copy Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and how it literally saved a man’s life in the First World War.

You can view this video on “The Book that Saved a Life” at the History Channel’s website.

Other videos available for viewing are: [found on "This Week's Hidden Treasure" page]

• the Gutenberg Bible
• the contents of Lincoln’s pockets from the night of his assassination
• Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible
• the book of accounts taken from the 1814 Capitol fire
• the Wallpaper edition of the Vicksburg paper  
• and the first Spider Man cartoon

Happy St Patrick’s Day!!

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St. Patrick's Day, Vintage Postcards

Vintage Postcard

 

Bookplate #1

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Bookplates

The Woman’s Literary Club

 

In a quick search, I find a number of Woman’s Literary Clubs or Women’s Literary Clubs, but none specify a bookplate.  The artist is ” W.S. ” and the book is numbered 455, indicating that the Club housed a library of some sort.

This bookplate is on the front paste-down of the following book:

Herbert, Leila.  The First American: his homes and his households.  NY: Harper & Brothers, 1900.

Later printing [title page states 1900, copyright is 1899], 8vo ivory illustrated cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, 140 pages, 140 pages, [4] pages publisher ads, deckle edges, b/w plates.  VERY GOOD- : rubbing to spine extremities and one corner, gilt lettering dulled on cover & spine;  boards lightly soiled, bookplate [ The Woman's Literary Club ], some typical chipping to the deckle edges, owner name on title page.  Herbert covers George Washington’s childhood and life at Mount Vernon, New York, Philadelphia and Germantown, and his final days at Mount Vernon, all illustrated.  $15.