Jordan Alexander Stein

"A miniature book published by St. Onge was the only book taken on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, and was thus the first book on the moon"

For many of the years that Raymond Weaver taught at Columbia University, he lived at 200 W 108th Street, and maybe, just maybe, this now defunct mailbox in the building’s lobby was the one at which he posted his first letters to Elizabeth Melville Metcalf

Take your watermark questions to The Grolier Club, they said.

(They were totally right!)

Woolmer, J. Howard, A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938 (1976) is what I remember looking at years ago, though it may not answer the query at a technical level. The Hogarth Press Wikipedia page has a detailed bibliography of secondary sources?

Working on eighteenth-century Haiti, but this was a fun side street

Dictionnaire de bibliographie Haitienne (1951) by Max Bissainthe is the first modern and still most comprehensive bibliography of Haiti printing. His typescript drafts at NYPL reveal his process, with note cards, paperclips, and typewriter errors corrected with scissors and now very yellowed tape

Honestly thought I was just doing some due diligence at the American Antiquarian Society, but found truly amazing unique and under-cataloged Haiti items, plus some surprising interactions between print and manuscript

#metaphor

There comes a time in every man’s life where he must face up to how little he knows about the stamps on French Revolutionary documents.

(No, but seriously, please recommend some readings.)

#goals

It becomes clear that this item’s excellent catalog record must have been a bit hard won.

Not trying to be mean spirited! Just posted for a laugh, waiting for multi-factor authentication while trying to upload receipts for the pizzas I had to buy and schlep myself because I don’t have any administrative support for either of the two programs I have to run now that the faculty has shrunk

I’m an English professor in the US in 1967. I bought a house in town my first year on the job and earned tenure with two articles. My wife cooks my meals and my secretary does my typing. I have to read all the books published this year about the one author I study. There were two of them.

Really loved this one

!!! Miss you and hope we can connect before too long!

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

Hello from the archives!

Another good book day!

Good book day

Little known fact: Mary, the character played by Parker Posey in the 1995 indie film "Party Girl," was actually based on me in college

If astrology isn’t real, why does Sarah Michelle Gellar share a birthday with Frederic Jameson?

Big ups to @jordanstein.bsky.social for stopping by my class to talk about Nina Simone! He's got a whole ass book about her: www.dukeupress.edu/fantasies-of...

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The British Library’s incredibly rare and totally pristine copy of the complete 1875 French translation of Marx’s Capital in quarto was personally donated by the author, and while I am not 100% sure what I mean by it, I feel compelled to say: it could always be like this

I'd love to be added as well

92nd! I am bad at math!

YouTube video by Nina Simone Nina Simone: To Love Somebody (Live in Antibes, 1969)

Happy 82nd birthday, Nina Simone!

Nina Simone — Tap Magazine A biographer’s fantasy

Short essay adapted from "Fantasies of Nina Simone" is up at The American Psychoanalyst

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@natewolff.bsky.social