Our project seeks to identify, record, and photograph significant, unique features of C19 and early C20 readership found in out-of-copyright ASU-owned books. To begin, we're examining pre-1923 titles in the PRs and the PSs in Hayden Library. (There are 13,673 pre-1923 books on the shelves in the PR and PS--British and American literature--sections.) This ASU Digital Repository space will collect digital images of the most interesting of these examples. We will also be sharing some of them with the University of Virginia-based crowd-sourced project founded and led by Prof. Andrew Stauffer, from which we take our project name and our inspiration: http://booktraces.org. We hope to locate objects for a potential future ASU special exhibit in 2019, when Hayden Library re-opens after its major renovation. (The books are leaving the tower in summer 2017.)

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This edition contains four additional tipped-in poems by the book's author. Poems appear to be cut from various newspapers of the period. Signature by book's owner located on title page.

ContributorsBryant, William Cullen (Author) / Zarka, Emily (Contributor)
Created2017-04-19
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This edition includes an author's inscription, "with the regards of J.T. Fields."

ContributorsFields, James Thomas (Author) / Zarka, Emily (Contributor)
Created2017-04-19
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This edition includes author Katharine Lee Bates' gift inscription, "This grave work is presented, at request, to Mildred C. Smith, president of the Wellerby Graduate Club, with Christmas Love from K.L.B. 1916."

ContributorsBates, Katharine Lee (Author) / Zarka, Emily (Contributor)
Created2017-04-19