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Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane: I Am Curious (Black)!was issue number 106 of the Lois Lane series of comics in 1970. In the comic, Lois Lane is a reporter for Metropolis newspaper “The Daily Planet” and is given the assignment to…

Samuel Proops founded his press in 1704. At first, he printed mainly prayer books for Sephardic and Ashkenazic rites. Proops was the first to bring out a sales catalog of Hebrew books. His press became the most important printing house in 18th…

Lovett, Ann Relation Spec. N7433.4.L68 R45 1999 [Rosendale, N.Y.] : Women's Studio Workshop, c1999. 1 v. : ill. ; 17 cm. Black boards with no spine connected by one sheet (2 p.) folded accordion style with glued-on flags, offset duotone on…

Hanmer, Karen They all laughed Spec. N7433.4.H36 T44 2002 Glenview (Ill.) : [K. Hanmer], c2002. 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 18 cm. "Photos and letter from Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute courtesy of the Library of Congress. They All Laughed…

Verne, Jules Tempête et calme Spec. PQ2469 .T46 2004 4o Octon, France : Verdigris , 2004. [1] leaf folded into [4] : ill. ; 33 cm. "La typographie en caractères mobiles, Vendôme romain, est composée et…

Manasseh (also Menasseh) Ben Israel (1604-1657) was the first publisher of Hebrew books in Amsterdam, setting up shop in 1626. Like Benjamin Franklin a century later, Manasseh was not only a printer, but a writer, community leader, and diplomat.…

David de Kastro (also de Castro) Tartas (1630-1698) worked for the printer Manasseh ben Israel in Amsterdam before setting up his own press in 1662. In 1678 he became a member of the Amsterdam Printers' Guild, competing with Uri ben Aaron ha-Levi,…

Major, Clarence. Parking lots : a poem Spec. PS3563.A39 P37 1992 [Mount Horeb, Wis.] : Perishable Press Ltd., 1992. [16] p., [7] double leaves : ill., maps ; 24 cm. "This is the 118th title from this press and is the first to try a…

Pe’er Ha-Dor (“glory of the generation”) contains the responsa of Maimonides, the great 12th Jewish scholar and philosopher. Responsa are answers to specific questions of Jewish law. Maimonides left over 250 such answers, but they were never…