September 11, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bett Miller
410-516-5571
bmiller@jhu.edu

RARE FIRST EDITIONS, EARLY SERIALIZED VERSIONS OF
BOOKS SHOWCASED AT THE EISENHOWER LIBRARY

A rare collection of first-edition books and early serialized versions of books by authors such as Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and local author Madison Smartt Bell is now on display at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library on the Homewood campus.

The collection, donated to the Sheridan Libraries by alumnus Richard Frary ('69) and his wife Irene, includes such jewels as Orient Express, illustrated by pictures from paintings done by Dos Passos himself. The exhibit is on display in the Special Collections Department on A- Level and can be viewed from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.

Special Collections librarian Bett Miller said the complete, serialized magazine versions of some of the novels, such as Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are particularly rare "because they were bought to be read and thrown away." The exhibit runs through Dec. 31, 2001.

The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the George Peabody Library.

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