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Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth
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This seemingly insignificant, slim volume is the catalog for a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Sam Wagstaff at the Detroit Institute of Arts. A renowned curator and collector, Wagstaff is best known as the benefactor of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and poet-musician Patti Smith.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
This collection of Yankee essays by beloved American author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857, a magazine that Holmes named. Eventually published in book form, this second edition copy is about as American as apple pie with a side of New England cheddar. Published in Boston in 1859, it still boasts its original, austere, American publishers' cloth binding typical of the mid-19th century. The essays are "dramedy" vignettes about a fictional Boston boardinghouse and the breakfast conversations among residents therein.
