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 Read More
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Grin and Bear It
Early printers often faced the problem of what to do with a page that only had a few lines of type on it–ideally you want a flat, even surface to print from. Oftentimes, they would use “bearer type,” type chosen more or less at random to fill out the page, perhaps lines of type from Read More
The Adventures of Tintin in Pop-up!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. “Tintin is myself. He reflects the best and brightest in me: he is my successful double…Tintin has accomplished many things on my behalf.” -Hergé Tintin who was created by Hergé, a pen name of Georges Prosper Read More
Ludlow’s Hasheesh Eater
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, founded in San Francisco in 1970 and formed from the libraries of several private collectors, was a preeminent collection of drug-related literature. Upon its closure, it was acquired by Julio Santo Domingo, Read More
A Trip through the Spiritual
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. In his book High Tide, Brad Johannsen really brings Herman Hesse and Lao Tzu’s writing to life with colorful and psychedelic illustrations. The book contains the story ‘Piktor’s Metamorphasis,” a spiritual tale telling of loneliness after Piktor has Read More