Rare books

Abstract The Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Collection comprises approximately 2,189 cataloged hardcover volumes of science fiction and fantasy literature, chiefly of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, gathered over fifty years by Frederick B. Shroyer, a professor of English and literary critic, and gifted to the Pollak Library in 1981. The books range from the 1830s to the late twentieth century but concentrate between the 1890s and the 1940s, and the...

Content Description Seven 19th century books on a variety of topics.Cushing, Luther Stearns, and Edmund Lambert Cushing. Manual of Parliamentary Practice = Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies. Edited by Edmund Lambert Cushing. Revised edition. Boston: Thompson, Brown, & Company, 1877.Town, Salem. An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language : or, A Key to Their Precise Analytic Definitions, by Prefixes and Suffixes. Carefully rev., and adapted to...