Rare Books Collections
Book of Hours, Use of Reims (c. 1400)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Kanellos Latino Literary Movement Book Collection)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, First American Edition (1876)
Queer by William S. Burroughs, First Edition (Edward Lukasek Gay Studies Collection)
The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents… by Edward Topsell (1658)
Atlantis by Aleister Crowley (Henry C. Owen Jr. Collection of Occult Sciences)
Journal of the Texian expedition against Mier by General Thomas J. Green (Claude Elliott Collection)
The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber, First Edition (Fritz Leiber Collection)
Dictionaries
Drama
Early Printed Books
Fine Press
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Hispanic Literature
Literature
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- Donald Barthelme Collection
- William B. Shrimplin Collection (Mark Twain and American Literature)
- Joe H. Baker, Jr. Collection (Gertrude Stein)
- Larry McMurtry Collection
- Vassar Miller Collection
Manuscript Books
Occult
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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- Fritz Leiber Collection
Texana
- The William B. Bates collection of Texana and Western Americana
- Richard Burges Texana Collection
- Patrick H. Candler Collection
- Claude Elliott Collection
- Book of Hours, Use of Reims
- Franco-Prussian War and Paris Commune Caricatures
- Havana, Cuba, The Summer Land of the World
- India Illustrated
- Scenes from the Middle East
- Ship of Fools Woodcuts
- Theodor de Bry’s America
- Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents Woodcuts
- Sheet Music of Flute and Violin Duets, 1790s-1850s
- Medieval Manuscript Leaves and Fragments
- Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
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