Posted in Houghton Library on Mar 31st, 2015 Comments Off on There’s an app for that
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Henri Austruy, born in 1871, was an attorney and editor of the journal La nouvelle revue from 1913 to 1940, when occupying Nazi forces shut the journal down. 1940 is also the approximate date of Austruy’s unrecorded death, which may […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Mar 17th, 2015 Comments Off on The Decadent demimonde
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s volume from the Santo Domingo Collection is a chronicle of social and intellectual life in nineteenth-century France, and its provenance establishes an acquaintance between two prominent figures thereof. Jean Lorrain (1855-1906, given name Paul Duval) was a prolific author […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 25th, 2014 Comments Off on Urdu Punch
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring material from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Punch, the seminal British satirical magazine, is credited with popularizing the use of ‘cartoon’ to mean a comic drawing, rather than a preliminary sketch for a painting or tapestry. During the time of the British Raj, a number of publications […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Nov 11th, 2014 Comments Off on Crowley and the Beast
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Santo Domingo Collection continues to bolster Harvard’s library of works by author and occult leader Aleister Crowley. These range from substantive books on magic to pamphlets containing individual poems (one of these, titled “Tyrol”, is a condemnation of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2014 Comments Off on The Best Selling Preacher
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Several books by the Reverend David Wilkerson and his followers are in the Santo Domingo Collection. Wilkerson, an evangelic pastor who moved to New York because he felt called to help young gang members and drug addicts, […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Jul 22nd, 2014 Comments Off on Lasciviousness, libel, and letters
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. As the French Revolution erupted in 1789, the bourgeoisie took up a variety of arms against the aristocracy; among them was literature. Pictured here from the Santo Domingo Collection is La Messaline françoise, a libelous account, published under […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Jun 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Cork, resin, and rope
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In the course of these posts on the Santo Domingo Collection, numerous fine, extravagant, and perhaps even ostentatious bindings and enclosures have been showcased. This week, we bring you the first of two books that extend past the codex […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Jun 10th, 2014 2 Comments »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Cataloging work is now underway on the complete bibliography of author, psychologist, countercultural guru, and erstwhile Harvard lecturer Timothy Leary. The Leary volumes in the Santo Domingo Collection were previously the collection of Michael Horowitz, Leary’s associate and bibliographer. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2014 Comments Off on Advice for Young Women
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Written in 1938, Bell Wood-Comstock’s Plain Facts for Young Women on Marijuana, Narcotics, Liquor and Tobacco offers advice for those ladies whose goal is to get married and settle down with children. Wood-Comstock wrote several books on advice […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Apr 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Unmodified sexuality
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We return to the occult in this week’s feature from the Santo Domingo Collection. Today’s author is Austin Osman Spare, an English artist, writer, and occultist active in the first half of the twentieth century. While Spare’s finely-wrought […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Mar 18th, 2014 Comments Off on A quaint and curious volume of [not-so-]forgotton lore
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. This 1882 volume of Poe’s poetry and essays, accompanied by biographical information and commentary on the poems, is a fine example of the publishers’ cloth bindings of its period. In response to broadening literacy and therefore increasing demand, […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Feb 18th, 2014 Comments Off on La Danse Macabre
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Eros, it should now be obvious, is intrinsic to the Santo Domingo Collection; it follows that Thanatos can’t be far behind. This lavish volume by Éditions Kra is entitled La Danse Macabre, and consists of twenty images by the […]
Posted in Houghton Library, Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2014 Comments Off on The adventures of I-Am-The-Man
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. Today’s feature is Etidorhpa, or The end of the earth, a fantastical novel by pharmacologist John Uri Lloyd, written in the hollow-earth mold of Jules Verne’s Journey to the center of the earth. The title is, as observant […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2014 Comments Off on The “Glo” of Advertising
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Day-Glo Designer’s Guide offers insights into the way that Day-Glo colors have been used in both art and advertising. Although Day-Glo is common today, the process wasn’t discovered until 1934 by Robert and Joseph Spitzer. While […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Jan 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Snow vogue
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The depredations of the drug trade are fertile ground for crime and mystery fiction: pulp, in a word. In the Santo Domingo Collection, these lurid works stand on the shelves alongside opium-inspired poetry and countercultural acid narratives. Pictured […]
Posted in Houghton Library, Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2013 Comments Off on A sumptuous edition of Pierre Louÿs’s unpublished poems
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. A particularly sumptuous volume from the collection of Gérard Nordmann is today’s Santo Domingo Collection feature. This 1938 publication of Poèmes inédits (Unpublished poems) by Pierre Louÿs was limited to 109 numbered copies; this is copy 5. Louÿs […]
Posted in Fine Arts Library on Oct 11th, 2013 Comments Off on It’s a dog’s life
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Stephen Huneck was not only an American author but a carving artist, painter, and furniture maker. Originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts he began working in wood when he lived in Rochester, Vermont. He was ostensibly discovered when an […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Oct 7th, 2013 Comments Off on Be our guest, be our guest….
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends is a volume by Samuel Tuke who was a Quaker and mental-health reformer in early 19th-century England. Tuke believed in this new […]
Posted in Houghton Library on Sep 25th, 2013 Comments Off on Gigantic bats in Space!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Voyage dans la lune avant 1900 is an extraordinary French children’s book that is composed primarily of color lithographs by Herold & Cie., which are based on the original designs of A. de Ville d’Avray’s. Almost nothing about […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2013 Comments Off on The works of David Gascoyne
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Santo Domingo collection is broad in scope, but its many volumes also accommodate exhaustive collecting of a number of particular authors. Among these is David Gascoyne (1916-2001), the British poet and translator known for his association with […]
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