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Some of my favorite book covers I found on the Internet Archive this week

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s publishers’ binding continues with the summer theme we’ve had this week. It is The Keeper of the Bees by Indiana author, photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924). The Keeper of the Bees was published in 1925 by The McCall Company, publishers of McCall’s Magazine (which Stratton-Porter also wrote for) and printed at The Country Life Press in Garden City, N.Y.

The book features some lovely floral decoration printed on the initial pages of the book, as well as on the endpapers. The decorations are by Lee Thayer (1874-1973), an artist and author of mystery novels. The illustrations of the text are by artist Gordon Grant (1875-1962). The book from front to back is just lovely!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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"... it was with a start of peculiar surprises and a thrill of emotion he could not have analyzed, that the boy beheld the little prince of his dreams." #libraryloveisloveislove #pride PZ7.G8216 IN . . . #warsoftheroses #history #england #royalty #publishersbinding #pridemonth #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #rarebooks #specialcollections #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #mizzou #universityofmissouri #ellislibrary #ifttt

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Great. Now that song’ll be stuck in my head. You know the one. “Your clothes may be Beau Brummell-y...”

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Holly Hill was a place for Christmas!

...They went to sleep the night before Christmas--or rather they went to bed, for sleep was long far from their bright eyes--with delightful expectations and thrills along their backs, and with little squeakings and gurglings, like so many little white mice, and if Santa Claus had not always been so very prompt in disappearing up the chimney before daybreak he must certainly have been caught.

A story of Christmas during the American Civil War, A Captured Santa Claus, by Thomas Nelson Page (1891, 1902). Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.

From Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries.

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