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 Read More
A heavenly cure?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. As you look at the cover of this pamphlet you might wonder what divine content might hide within its covers, well that would be… The Pink Pills! The Pink Pills for Pale People were introduced in Read More
The works of Timothy Leary
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. Read More
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 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