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Louisa Whitman manuscript, during treatment
Louisa Whitman manuscript, during treatment by DukeUnivLibraries, on Flickr
The Duke University Libraries Adopt-A-Book Program gives you the opportunity to support the conservation of library materials in need of repair. Your gift helps to keep these materials available for current and future faculty, scholars and students.

Books, manuscripts, moving images, photographs and University Archives materials are available for adoption. An electronic book plate will be put into the item's catalog record to acknowledge your gift. Adopted items are listed at the bottom of this page.

Adoption Process

A selection of available items is listed below. Please contact the head of the Conservation Services Department with your adoption choice:

Beth Doyle, Head of Conservation Services Dept.
b.doyle@duke.edu
919-660-5985

We are happy to honor someone special or recognize a special event such as graduation in the electronic bookplate. If you wish your gift to remain anonymous, we will honor that request.

 

Adoptable Collection Items

 

Adopt A Box

Adopt a Box: Conservator's Choice! With this option, we will choose an item in need of an enclosure and put your name on the electronic bookplate. The staff in the conservation lab make on average 5,000 custom enclosures a year. There is always something in the lab that needs a box. Candidates may come from any part of our collections including Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Archives, Music Library locked stacks, or Lilly Library locked stacks. 

Adopt for $150
Covers of He Never Slept so Long

NEW!

He Never Slept So Long, by Shivkumar Joshi (Calcutta, Writers Workshop 1972). The Writers Workshop was founded in 1958. It is recognized for supporting literature and new authors. Joshi was a Gujarati-language author, actor, and director. This lovely woven-cloth covered book needs a custom enclosure to protect the fabric from light and dust.
[alma990013935690108501]
Adopt for $25
Cover of Yamamato Masao

Yamamato Masao (South Dennis, MA 2010)  This limited edition book of photographs by Yamamato Masao is stunning. The images are gorgeous, the printing is beautiful, and the Japanese paper covers with tradtional-style publisher's box is stunning. We want to box this so all of the pieces of this publication can remain in excellent condition. 

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

[alma990083107290108501]

Adopt for $50
Newton Astronomy fold out of solor system

NEW!

Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, by James Ferguson (London, 1764). This amazing item has multiple fold-outs that explains the solar system based on Isaac Newton's discoveries. The illustrations are delightful, and delicate. This item needs a custom enclosure to keep these fragile fold outs in good condition.

[alma990001924990108501]

ADOPTED!
Maiwas Revenge and She

 

Miawa's Revenge: A Tale of Adventure (Chicago, 1903) by H. Rider Haggard. The cover and spine title are unique on this edition as the printer misspelled "Maiwa" as "Miawa." 

Maiwa's Revenge: A Tale of Adventure (New York, not before 1888) by H. Rider Haggard. 

She: A History of Adventure (New York, between 1907 and 1918) by H. Rider Haggard. This edition acquired as part of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Collection.

Sorceress Ayesha and adventurer Allan Quatermain get up to all sorts of adventures in these titles with themes of revenge, survival, and political intrigue. Apparently there is some moral dilemmas thrown in for good mix. 

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 
[alma99119620177208501]
[alma99119620177308501]
[alma99119620684008501]

Adopt three for $75
Folk Famous text, box, and woodcut

 

NEW!

Folk Famous Traditional Woodblock Prints in China, by Yan Lu (2008). This beautiful set of items includes a text, large woodcut, and publisher's box. This needs a custom enclosure to keep all three items together and in good condition. [alma990083199130108501]

Adopt for $75
Production Manager JournalProduction Manager Journal open page PM (New York, 1936-1937) Production Manager Journal is described as, "An intimate journal for production  managers." This includes art directors and you can tell! A wonderful look at 1930's design and style. The colors inside are vibrant and modern. 

 

Volumes 2 and 3 need custom enclosures to protect the covers and pages. 

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 
[alma99119787518408501]

Adopt two for $100
Naturbuch coverNaturbuch text page

Naturbuch von nutz eigenschafft..., by von Meganberg Konrad (Frankfurt am Meyn, 1540)

What is better than miniature animals striking poses? Miniature animals inside an incredible waste-vellum-bound book! This marvelous menagerie of animals and plants needs a custom enclosure to protect the fragile binding.

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 
[alma990004473940108501]

ADOPTED!
Audubon

Birds of America by John James Audubon . This four-volume, double-elephant-folio edition on handmade paper measures three feet tall and two feet wide and comprises 435 hand-colored prints impressed from copperplate engravings. Of the original 175 to 200 complete sets, 125 have survived. Nine species of those depicted have since gone extinct. These stunning double elephant folios were printed between 1827–1803. Three volumes in this four volume set need full conservation attention to repair their broken sewing and boards before the damage becomes too severe.

3 of 3 volumes available for adoption.

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Flipping the Bird Live Event

Duke University Libraries turns the pages of the Birds of America on the first Friday of every month at 12:15 p.m. We welcome you to stop by and watch staff turn the pages of these enormous books. Be the first to find out what bird will be on display next!

ADOPTED!

Adopted Books

To see your electronic bookplate, click on the title link then scroll down to "Local Notes." 

DONOR TITLE OF WORK OR COLLECTION ADOPTED
David Whalin (T'69)

The Negro & Indian's Advocate (1685) and Supplement  by Morgan Godwyn 
[alma990012280650108501]
[alma990012259380108501]

Negro (London, 1934) published by Nancy Cunard [alma990024733770108501]

8/18/2026
Beth Peters in memory of Barbara Curran

Deal With It by Esther Drill (New York, 1999). [alma990061501000108501]

8/14/2026
Duke Libraries in honor of Carson Holloway

Insurance Maps of Durham, North Carolina, Sandborn Map Co. (1931) [alma990086717600108501] See this treatment online in the Conservation Database Archives.

The History of my Life and Work, Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. (1903) [alma990014265690108501]

8/1/2026
Andrew Burke (T 1998)

The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry c.1, by Frances S. Osgood (New York, 1848).  

Language of Flowers c.3, by Kate Greenaway (London, 1884). 

The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry, by Lucy Hooper (New York, 1842).  

(Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 
[alma990002175420108501]
[alma990002773680108501]
[alma99119775084608501]

7/31/2026
Duke Libraries in honor of Linda Daniel

New and Rare Beautiful-Leaved Plants, by (James) Shirley Hibberd (London, 1870)[alma990027390820108501]

7/22/2026
Beth Peters in honor of Kate Medina

Eloise, by Kay Thompson (New York, 1955) [alma990008545900108501]

7/8/2026
Andrew Boney (T 2004)

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents by Edward Topsell with added "The Theater of Insects" by T. Muffet (London, 1658). [alma990022193280108501]

Sketch of Plot Plan Trinity College Durham N.C. (1924)  (Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) 

6/4/2026
Marc Borkan in honor of Matt Berninger 現代商業美術全集 / Gendai shōgyō bijutsu zenshū (Tokyo, 1929-1930) 
[alma99119581951508501]
5/19/2026
Dracine Hodges in honor of Janeites, past, present, and future

Volume the Third, by Jane Austen (Rubenstein Library c.1) (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1951) [alma990001323490108501]

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (New York, E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1976) [alma990079161540108501]

5/12/2026
Andrew Boney (T 2004) in honor of Matt Garber

Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats (Boston 1838) by Eliza Leslie. [alma99119733053608501] 

The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy (London, 1767) by Hannah Glasse. [alma99119731706408501]

Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book (London before 1901) by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton. [alma99119754598608501]

4/20/2026
Lora Hersh (T 1991), Zack Hersh (T 2019), Morgan Hersh (T 2019, MBA 2021), Casey Hersh (Syracuse 2021), Brandon Hersh (T 2019), in honor of Jeffrey Hersh (T 1988)  Steiff Blue Devil Doll (1953-1954). (Duke University Archives--Artifacts and Relics Collection) [alma990039218890108501] 4/29/2026
Lora Hersh (T1991) in memory of Peggy Herren, mother of Jennifer Hanawald (T1991)

The Waves (Hamburg; Paris; Bologna, 1933) by Virginia Woolf. [alma990108928880108501]

The Single Heart (London, 1932) by Storm Jameson (born Margaret Ethel Jameson). [alma990107583700108501]

4/29/2026
Yuruo Zhang Neue und ausfuhrliche Abhandlung von dem Tabacke... (Leipzig, 1781) ["A new and detailed treatise on tobacco..."] [alma990115163650108501] 2/3/2026
Michael Danowitz (T 1991, P 2023) in honor of Erica Swenson Danowitz (P 2023)  Birds of America by John James Audubon (London, 1827-1838) [alma990015323370108501] 11/11/2025
Naomi Nelson in honor of Lyda Moore Merrick

Negro Braille Magazine (Durham NC, 29, number 2, December 1980), Negro Braille Magazine Project (Durham, NC, 1980) [alma990007676780108501]

Merrick/Washington Magazine for the Blind (Durham NC, 32, number 2, December 1983), Negro Braille Magazine Project (Durham, NC, 1983) [alma990007676790108501]

1/9/2026
Duke University Libraries, the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and the Dance Program in honor of Lee Sorensen

Ballet de Champs, Picasso (Paris, 1948) [alma990094846700108501]

Immediate Family, by Sally Mann (New York, 1992) [alma990012544220108501]

At Twelve, by Sally Mann (New York, 1988) [Rubenstein copies 1 and 2] [alma990008246770108501]

1/9/2026
Rebecca Pattillo in honor of her love, Charlotte Asmuth The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry c.2 (New York, 1848) [alma990002175420108501] 12/17/2025
Jessica Anderson in honor of Verna Jean Arambula

Children and Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll (London, 1933) [alma990087380690108501]

Chinese Women Speak by Dymphna Cusack (Sydney, 1958) [alma990002536130108501]

New Plays for Women and Girls by Samuel French LTD (New York, Los Angeles, London, 1932) [alma990016914830108501]

12/12/2025
In honor of Hope Uronis MD Quintessence: The Quality of Having It (1983) [alma990005441240108501 ] 12/12/2025
Andrew Boney (T 2004) Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America, by John James Audubon (1839). [alma990015323390108501] 12/3/2025
Meredith and Lauren Mobley in honor of Stacie Mobley 世界旅行萬國名所圖會 / Sekai ryokō bankoku meisho zue (Ōsaka-shi : Suzandō, Meiji 18-19 [1885-1886]) [alma99119620144608501] 11/3/2025
Marc Borkan in memory of Victor Casagrande

Plantas Medicinales del Peru (Lima, 2023) [alma99119849732108501]

Mi Poncho es un Kimono Flamenco, by Fernando Iwasaki Cauti (Lima, Peru 2005) [alma99119849934108501]

Todo es Aluvion, by Jose Rosas Ribeyro (Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2012) [alma99119809746708501]

Xochicuicameh nepapan = Los Poemas Diversos, by Jose Carlos Monroy Rodriguez (Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2021) [alma99119809747208501]

Noches Vacias, by Washington Cucurto (Lima, Peru, 2004) [alma99119849933208501]

Times New Roman, by Patricia Rivas (Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 2020) [alma99119809747108501]

10/17/2025
Joseph Salem Series of plates of the heart, cranium, and brain (London, 1813) [alma990107617280108501] 10/15/2025
Tracey Koepke in honor of Barbara Koepke The Illustrated Language of Flowers (London, 1862) [alma990079932920108501] 10/15/2025
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 1970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978) 1984 (Russian translation) (Russia, between 1950-1959) [alma990065911990108501] 10/14/2025
Anonymous  Peacock's Polite Repository (England, 1804) [alma990107438720108501] 10/14/2025
Beth Doyle

Giorgio Ciompi Papers (1900s-1980), Plaster Mask in Box 9 [alma990104893380108501] 

Ladies of Llangollen Collection (1174-1991), Box 7 [alma990081093680108501]

9/25/2025
Susan O'Connell in honor of librarians Annual Reports of The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1815-1837) [alma990001552200108501] 9/22/2025
Logan Herrera in honor of Chris Herrera The Home Decorator and Color Guide, by Rockwell Kent (1939)  [alma9900967203901085019] 8/21/2025
Andrew Boney (T 2004) Natural History of Quadrupeds (England, 1811) [alma990106009100108501] 8/21/2025
Andrew Burke (T 1998)

Captain Klutz II (New York, 1983) [alma990096720270108501]

Mad's Bizarre Biz (New York, 1987) [alma990096720150108501]

Mad Bizarre Bazaar (New York, 1980) [alma990096720110108501]

A Mad Look at the 60's (New York, 1989) [alma990096720140108501]

8/21/2025
Andrew Burke (T 1998) Japanese Product Labels Scrapbook (1850-1919)  [alma990096522230108501] 8/21/2025
Tracey Koepke in memory of Alan. J. Koepke (K1JCL) Radio Handbook (1924) [alma990104853860108501] 9/12/2025
Tracey Koepke

Rambles Through the British Aisles (1869) [alma990106723660108501]

The Complete Angler (1953) [alma990106024260108501]

The Princess, A Medley (Alfred Tennyson, 1847) [alma990001878700108501]

9/12/2025
Anonymous Dante con lespositione di Christoforo Landino [c.2] , by Dante Alighieri (1564) [DUKE001813767] 10/15/2025
Dr. Marianna Torgovnick in honor of Buford Jones

東海道風景之圖 / Tōkaidō fūkei no zu (c.1870) [DUKE010009062]

1/10/2025
Kevin A. Klock (2001) in memory of E.P. Sanders, Professor Emeritus of Religion The Life of Paul the Apostle (1784) [DUKE000709374]

The Life and Work of St. Paul (vols. 1 and 2)(1879) [DUKE001155687]
1/4/2023
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 1970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (copy 2) [DUKE001286383] 10/7/2024
Charles Jones Gone with the Wind (1936) [Rubenstein c.2] by Margaret Mitchell  [DUKE000035416] 1/25/2022
Heather Martin, in memory of Dorothy Lee Martin

Kindred (1979)  by Octavia Butler. Rubenstein Library copy 1 [DUKE007712003]

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) [DUKE002932526] by Zora Neal Hurston 

1/25/2022
Dracine Hodges, in memory of Sara Seten Berghausen Fledgling: A Novel, by Octavia E. Butler (2005) (Rubenstein Library copy 2 and laid-in material) [DUKE003583007]

Bloodchild: And Other Stories, by Octavia E. Butler (1995) [DUKE002063046]
12/15/2022
Beth Doyle, in memory of Sara Seten Berghausen Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes (1979) [DUKE009751341]

The Singing Knives, by Frank Stanford (1979) [DUKE006679556]
12/15/2022
Dracine Hodges

H. McLanahan bindings (set 1):

The philanderer : a topical comedy of the year 1893 (B. Shaw)
Man of Destiny: a trifle (B. Shaw)
Arms and the man : an anti-romantic comedy in three acts (B. Shaw)
Candida: a mystery (B. Shaw)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion: and adventure (B. Shaw)
John Bull's Other Island: in four acts (B. Shaw)
Overruled; & The darkl ady of the sonnets (B. Shaw)
How He Lied to her Husband; Admirable Bashville (B. Shaw)
Major Barbara: in three acts (B. Shaw)

8/23/2024
CM Boston Cote
(T 2006) in memory of Jingyi Zhang
(T 2006)
Asian Student Association (Box 3 and Box 5) [DUKE003258669] 3/11/2024

Nada Radovic in honor of Ljiljana Ivezic

東海道名所圖會 / Tōkaidō meisho zu (1797)[DUKE010009062] 1/20/2024
Kevin A. Klock (2001) and Teresa Klock-Taube The Sweet Flypaper of Life , by Roy DeCarava (1955)

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole , by Matthew Alexander Henson (1912)
Roots , by Alex Haley (1976)
Invisible Man , by Ralph Ellison (1952)

1/4/2023
CM Boston Cote (T 2006) in honor of Emin Hadziomanovich (T 2006) Emoji Dick (2010) by Fred Beneson  [DUKE005821331] 11/29/2022
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 2970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Preface to the original edition 1855) [DUKE000426381] 11/1/2022

Lesley Looper (T 1986) in honor of Laura Jorgens Hörnell (T 2011) and Johan Hörnell (T 2013)

Planches de Seba (1831) (2 vols)  by Albertus Seba [DUKE002499057] 8/25/2022
Duke University Libraries in honor of Ann Wolfe

Comic-con : 40 years of artists, writers, fans & friends, forward by Ray Bradbury [DUKE004208113]

Only at Comic-Con : Hollywood, fans, and the limits of exclusivity, by Erin Hanna [DUKE009350408]

Boston Patriot, 1811: March-August c.1, Everett & Munroe (Boston) [DUKE001546935][barcode D04647215T]

It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic essays on a pop culture phenomenon, by Ben Bolling and Matthew J. Smith (2014) [DUKE006050439]

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome female characters from comic book history,  by Hope Nicholson (2017) [DUKE007839542]

8/17/2022
Cory Sherb in memory of Warren Shieh (T 1999)

Authored by Bernard Shaw. Fine bindings by H. McLanahan (set 2)

The Devil's Disciple: A melodrama in three acts  [DUKE008916037]
Widower's Houses: A play  [DUKE008916023]
Caesar and Cleopatra: A history  [DUKE008916377]
Fanny's First Play: An easy play for a little theatre  [DUKE008921645]
The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet : a sermon in crude melodrama  [DUKE008921766]
Androcles and the Lion: A fable play  [DUKE008921754]
The Doctor's Dilemma: A tragedy  [DUKE008921773]
Mrs. Warren's Profession: A play in four acts  [DUKE008916378]
You Never Can Tell: A comedy in four acts  [DUKE008921643]

6/16/2022
Andrew Boney (T 2004) French Wall Decoration, by Paul Balin [DUKE001553487] 6/2/2022
Duke University Libraries in honor of Deborah Jakubs

Sophie's Choice, by William Styron [DUKE000409599, Gift of Ariel Dorfman, D04455097Y]

Sophie's Choice, by William Styron, copy 1 [DUKE000530212]

בחירתה של סופי / Beḥiratah shel Sofi, by William Styron [DUKE004671959, copy 2]

Sophie's keuze, by William Styron [DUKE000440648]

Sophie választ : regény, by William Styron [DUKE000872546]

Sophieʼ nin seçimi, by William Styron [DUKE000766244]

Sofī no sentaku, by William Styron, vols 1 and 2 [DUKE002133890]

La scelta di Sophie, by William Styron, copies 1 and 2 [DUKE000450125]

Sophies valg, by William Styron, copies 1 and 2 [DUKE000452080]

Wybór Zofii, by William Styron [DUKE001118195]

Sophiina voĺba, by William Styron [DUKE000836306]

ソフィーの選択. 1 / Sofī no sentaku. 1., by William Styron [DUKE003311101]

Sofien valinta, by William Styron [DUKE000493607]

Sophiejina odločitev, by William Styron [DUKE000543006]

Sophiina volba, by William Styron [DUKE000675095]

William Styron papers, 1855-2019 and undated. Box SC4, c.1 [DUKE002532590]

5/13/2022
Duke University Libraries in honor of Tom Hadzor

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, copies 1 and 2 [DUKE002672041]

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain [DUKE000385288]

Huckleberry Finn seikkailut, by Mark Twain [DUKE003929075]

Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer, by Mark Twain [DUKE003929449]

Приключения Гекльберри Финна : повесть / Prikli͡uchenii͡a Geklʹberri Finna : povestʹ, by Mark Twain [DUKE005738975]

哈克贝里・芬历险记 / Hakebeili Fen li xian ji, by Mark Twain [DUKE006688810]

Przygody Hucka, by Mark Twain [DUKE003929081]

Приключения Тома Сойера : повесть ; Приключения Гекльберри Финна : роман / Prikli͡uchenii͡a Toma Soĭera : povestʹ ; Prikli͡uchenii͡a Geklʹberri Finna : roman, by Mark Twain [DUKE005738985]

5/1/2022
David Ferriero in honor of Deborah Jakubs

Don Quixote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1837). [DUKE009852045]

12/14/2021
Beth Doyle in honor of Dee McCullough

Chrysalis, by Julie Chen (2014) [DUKE006625280]

12/2/2021
Jim Curry in honor of Ann Q. Curry (1965)

Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather (1935) [DUKE000041465]

The Wit of Women by Kate Sanborn (1885) [DUKE002031545]

Tales of New England by Sarah Orne Jewett (1894) [DUKE001393858]

11/24/2021
Deborah Jakubs and Jim Roberts The Natural History of Foreign Butterflies by James Duncan, N.W.S. (1837) [DUKE010010335]

Le Voyage de L'Isabella au Centre de la Terre by Léon Crux (1922) [DUKE010156607]


東海道五拾三次 / Tōkaidō gojūsantsugi by 歌川国盛画 / Utagawa Kunimori ga (1844) [DUKE010009064]

11/2/2021
Leanora Minai Life of Mme. de la Rochefoucauld... (1878) [DUKE010113150]

Joan of Arc , by Robert Southey (1798) [DUKE009837830]

Famous Women: An outline of feminine achievement... by Joseph Adelman (1928) [DUKE010153769]
11/1/2021
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 1970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978)

Kreutter Buch by Pedanius Dioscorides (1546) [DUKE010489489]

10/27/2021
C in memory of his grandparents Barbara and John D. Klock (1937)

Ulysses ,  by James Joyce (1934) [DUKE001377975]

10/27/21
Linda Zimmerman

Old New York, by Edith Wharton (1924) [DUKE008203807]

2/1/2021
Dracine Hodges

Dune , by Frank Herbert (1965). This book is part of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Collection . [DUKE008661404]

12/18/2020
Kim Reed in honor of Professor Victor Strandberg

The Game of Thrones , by George R.R. Martin (1996) [DUKE008700255]

The Left Hand of Darkness , by Ursula K. LeGuin (1969) [DUKE001477787]

The Citadel of Autarch , by Gene Wolfe (1983) [DUKE000496404]

6/1/2020
Funded by the Strategic Initiatives team in honor of Barbara Collins

Lectures on Art  , by John Ruskin [DUKE008922727].

Ionica  , by William Johnson Corey [DUKE008922953]

The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri,  by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. [DUKE008923076]

Les confessions de J.-J. Rousseau , by Jean-Jacques Rousseau [DUKE008922761].

The Aeneids of Virgil done into English Verse by William Morris , by Virgil [DUKE008923090].

9/27/2020
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 1970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978)

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication...  (text volumes 10 and 13) by Denis Diderot 
[ DUKE000362924 ]

An American Tragedy  by Theodore Dreiser  [DUKE000072227]

9/15/2020
In honor of Dan Wiercioch

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad [DUKE000111073]

The Guilded Age [DUKE000504276]

The Innocents Abroad [DUKE005197823]

1/17/2020
Megan Crain in honor of Stephen G. Crain (G 2016) Salem's Lot [DUKE003251554] , Stranger in a Strange Land [DUKE000070744] , The Shining [DUKE003251548] , by Stephen King. 11/15/2019
Georgeann C. Corey and George Corey (T 1969) in honor of Elijah George Corey.

The Naturalist's Library by William Jardine (1835-1843) . [DUKE000217905] 7 vol.
The Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology [DUKE000309601] 6 vol.
The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia   [DUKE000363217] 13 vol.
The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology [DUKE000363589] 14 vol.

11/6/2019
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 1970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978) Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication... (plate volumes 1, 2, and 11) by Denis Diderot
[DUKE000936143]
9/16/2019
Lesley Looper (1986) in memory of LaNelle Edwards Looper (1953, 1955) Broadway Theatres Posters by Wendy Nelson-Cave (New York, N.Y. : Smithmark, c1993) [DUKE002197330] 6/25/2019
Kim Reed in honor of Professor Victor Strandberg Lord of the Rings (v. 1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkein (London, 1954-1955).  [DUKE008699170] 4/12/2019
Dracine Hodges By Octavia Butler

Wild Seed (Garden City, New York; 1980) [DUKE008109809]

Clay's Ark (New York; 1984) [DUKE003314481]

Mind of My Mind (Garden City, New York; 1977) [DUKE000241715]

Patternmaster (Garden City, New York; 1976) [DUKE008109724]

 

4/12/2019
Wyatt Bradford in honor of Jack A. Bradford, BN Scholar (2019) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein (Boston and New York, 1938). [DUKE008708037] 4/1/2019
Scott and Kimberly Bradford in honor of Jack A. Bradford, BN Scholar (2019) Shakespeare in Harlem , by Langston Hughes (1947) [DUKE006058327] 3/8/2019
Kevin A. Klock (2001) Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte. [DUKE002242048] 1/2/2019
Joseph Johnson, Jr. (A.B. 2970, M.A.T. 1971, Ed.D. 1978) Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication... (plate v.5 and 8) by Denis Diderot [DUKE000936143] 11/12/2018
Macey Colvin in memory of O. Michael Colvin The Sound and the Fury , by William Faulkner (1929). [DUKE003857045] 4/17/2018
DUL Conservation Services Dept. Conservation Services funded the custom mount for the Nobel Prize medal in the Kenneth Arrow Papers in honor of Bob Byrd upon his retirement from Duke University Libraries. 4/30/2018
Libby McKeever (T 1976)(P 2009) in honor of Richard H. Montgomery and Jo Ann Montgomery Scully History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas McKenney and James Hall (1855). [DUKE001488286] 12/15/2017
Jan Tore Hall (T 1973) in memory of Inger Tavernise

The North American Indian,   by Edward Curtis (1907-1930), portfolio plates. [DUKE000435659]

12/6/2017

The Gray Family (P 2021) in honor of The California Tribal College

The North American Indian,   by Edward Curtis (1907-1930), text volumes. [DUKE000435659]

11/21/2017

Jeff Kosokoff and Laura Bey

A Vindication on the Rights of Women , by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792). [DUKE002396752]

11/15/2017

Kevin A. Klock (2001) in honor of his father Douglas M. Klock (1965)

Paradise Lost, by John Milton (1669). [DUKE000219398]

6/21/2017

Maryann (T 1982) and Ron Bruce (P 2013)

Edwin and Terry Murray Comic Book Collection and the Comic Book and Graphic Novel Collection.
Titles adopted include: Watchmen [DUKE007672490]; Justice League of America [DUKE007540127]

12/19/2016

Bonnie Burrus Corwin (T 1982)

The Bluest Eye , by Toni Morrison. [DUKE003164599]

8/19/2016

Anonymous

This generous gift will support the conservation of numerous materials. As these items come to Conservation, we will add the titles here.

11/26/2013-

7/13/2016

 

Travels into several remote nations of the world , by Jonathan Swift, vols. 1-2. [DUKE002166870] Read about this project on Preservation Underground.

 
 

Manual of Human Anatomy , by Robert Knox [DUKE000856887].

 
 

The question of rest for women during menstruation, by Mary Putnam Jacobi [DUKE000662895]

 
 

Biblia hepta...Libri septem , by Aegineta Paulus [DUKE000713234]

 
  Woman and her diseases , by Edward H. Dixon [DUKE002812875]  
  R.P. Aloysii Novarini Veronensis , by Luigi Novarini [DUKE003474468]  
 

Sexti libri decratalium... , by Pope Bonafice VIII [DUKE002521394]

 
  The History of Georgia..., by Capt. Hugh McCall; copy 1, vols. 1-2 [DUKE001482533]  
  The Works of the Late Reverend Samuel Johnson, by Samuel Johnson [DUKE001369485]  
  Paradise Lost, by John Milton, c.2 [DUKE000219398]  
  Fair Warnings to a Careless World, by Josiah Woodward [DUKE000561222]  
  Carey's American Pocket Atlas, by Matthew Carey [DUKE000248330]  
  Journal of Major George Washingon , by George Washington [DUKE000400665]  
  Lives of the Popes , by Platina [DUKE001836318]  
  The Annals of the World, by James Ussher [DUKE002282236]  
  The History of the Life and Acts of...Edmund Grindal , by John Strype [DUKE002172490]  
  Rarum Italicarum..., by Filippo Argelati, et al. [DUKE003068539]  
  Journal. North Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. (1789) [DUKE000279774]  
  Preclarissium liber completus... , by Alī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl [DUKE000786652]  
     
Nancy Ingram Kenderdine in memory of Prof. Elizabeth Bookhout

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker [DUKE000484767]

4/22/2016
Teresa and Kevin Klock (2001) in honor of their children John H.D. Klock and Jacob M.T. Klock

A Picture Book Without Pictures [DUKE001478489] and Little Rudy and Other Tales [DUKE002125645] by Hans Christian Andersen.

4/3/2016

Andrew Boney (T 2004)

Toad of Toad Hall, by A.A. Milne [DUKE006094080]

11/24/2015
Jeff Kosokoff and Laura Bey

Der swangern Frawen und Hebammen Roszgarten, by Eucharius Rosslin. [DUKE002129192]

11/23/2015
Dr. Michael Weiss

Slaughterhouse-five or The children's crusade, by Kurt Vonnegut [DUKE000000633]

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley [DUKE001332100]

10/7/2015
Nixie Miller in honor of Bill Pitts

Catch 22 , by Joseph Heller [DUKE003234716]

3/10/2015
Mrs. Georgeann C Corey in honor of Mr. Michael Lee Corey (T 2005)

Of Mice and Men , by John Steinbeck [DUKE001351443]

Old Man and the Sea , by Ernest Hemingway [DUKE001713727]

3/10/2015
Mrs. Georgeann C Corey in memory of Mr. George Nassif Corey (T 1969)

Signed basketball (1992) , Artifacts and Relics Collection, 1830's-ongoing. Duke University Archives. [ UA98-85; Box 17] [DUKE003921889]

Proposed design of Duke University , drawn by the Horace Trumbauer firm for James B. Duke, 1924. Duke University Archives. [DUKE003205743]

3/9/2015
Katie Clark (1987) in honor of her mother Pamela Clark

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication... (plate v.7) by Denis Diderot [DUKE000936143]

2/1/2015
Sarah L. Bingham

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940, first edition) [DUKE000537516]
The Common Reader , Second Series by Virginia Woolf (1932, first edition) [DUKE000027581]

10/7/2014
Barbara Bernhard Hanson (1982)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath [DUKE003857200]

10/6/2014
Kevin A. Klock (2001) in honor of his father Douglas M. Klock (1965)

Lord of the Flies , by William Golding [DUKE003857078]

9/9/2014
Jeff Kosokoff and Laura Bey

Het achterhuis : dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944 , by Anne Frank. [DUKE003857076]

7/22/2014
Rebecca Williams

Geographia vniversalis by Ptolemy (t.1) [DUKE001989929]
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, (v.1) by Denis Diderot [DUKE000362924]

7/18/2014

Ann Beman

Villette by Charlotte Bronte [DUKE003856456]

6/28/2014

Robert Joseph Kubek, MD 1986

Edmund M. Cameron Scrapbooks

6/24/2014

Barbara Branson

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck [DUKE000035394]

6/18/2014

Will Hansen and Jaime Danehey

Phrenological Description of W. Whitman , Age 29 Occupation Printer by L.N. Fowler

4/17/2014
Lauren Winner Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley [DUKE002363589] 4/11/2014
Deborah Jakubs and Jim Roberts Catcher In The Rye [DUKE000035160] 4/10/2014
Michael McCahill Stephen Fuller Papers [DUKE000854590] 3/4/2014
Beth Doyle Greek Manuscript #2 [New Testament Gospel Lectionary] [alma990060356330108501] 2/25/2014