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Book covers for two editions of A Defense of the Book by William H. Gass. Designed by Ken Botnick. St. Louis, MO: Emdash, 2001 Published in Harper’s Magazine (November 1999) and A Temple of Texts, New York: Knopf, 2006

Typescript draft of “Sweets.” A fictional memoir published as “Sweet Things” in Harper’s Magazine (February 1992) and included in The Tunnel.

Typed manuscript drafts of “The Religion of Consciousness” by William H. Gass. Essay on Katherine Anne Porter, stolen and published by a fellow professor at Purdue University—the same professor who stole the Omensetter’s Luck…

"Marianne Moore’s Lexicon Complied as a Companion to Her Complete Poems" by William H. Gass. Created for the Philosophy and Literature Spring 1999 class during Gass’s final semester of teaching.

Proof of “The Statues” by William H. Gass as published in The New Yorker, December 5, 1977.

Modern Literature Collection, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1994 issue featuring “The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism” by William H. Gass. Published as “The Art of Self” in Harper’s Magazine (May 1994) and…

The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial program, May 21, 1975. William H. Gass received an Arts and Letters Award of the Academy-Insitute in Literature.

Washington University Founders Day program, 1974. William H. Gass received a faculty award.

Autograph letter signed from William H. Gass to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gass, September 2, 1945.

First edition dust jacket for Finding a Form by William H. Gass, New York: Knopf, 1996