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Wish List

The Eisenhower Library has compiled a Wish List of books and items that are needed but cannot be purchased due to budget constraints. Please help the Library by purchasing an item on the Wish List. A commemorative bookplate will be placed into the book or item you purchase, acknowledging your generosity to the Library. Gifts can be made in honor of a favorite professor, classmate, or cherished loved one.

You may purchase an item from the Wish List using our secure online form or call 410-516-8327. You may mail your contribution to:

Friends of the Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Please indicate which item you would like to purchase for the library. Thank you for your support and warmest regards from everyone at the Eisenhower Library.

Wish List Items

1. Digital Optics Library from the Optical Society of America ($26,000, which includes access for all backfiles on all JHU campuses)
   
   
2. Sutton Hoo Press Decade Box: Sutton Hoo Press is a literary fine press publisher, and the decade box contains one copy of each book and broadside still in print at the end of 2001. ($7,000) For more information and a list of titles see: http://suttonhoopress.com/DecadeBox.html *PURCHASED*
   
   
3. Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology / James Schwarz, 2004 ($3,500)
   
   
4. Critical Reviews or Annals of Literature, 1756-1763 (16 volumes published by Pickering & Chatto). ($2,500) For more information, see: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/criticalreview.htm. *PURCHASED*
   
   
5. Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science / A.T. Hubbard, Dekker, 2002 ($1,500)
   
   
6. Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings From the Era of Imperial Expansion, 1770-1835, 8 volumes set / Tim Fulford, Peter Kitson & Tim Youngs ($1,140)
   
   
7. Ciclo: arte, literatura y pensamiento modernos. The only 2 issues published of an Argentinian periodical (1948-49). In original wrappers ($912)
   
   
8. American Utopias, 7 volume set / Lyman Tower Sargent ($880)
   
   
9. City Lights Journal. All the issues published of a San Francisco literary journal. Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. (1963-66). Would fit in nicely with our new direction of collecting in modern poetry. ($851)
   
   
10. Conduct Literature for Women I, 1500-1640, 6 volume set / William St. Clair & Irmgard Maassen ($795)
    
    
11. Conduct Literature for Women II, 1640-1710, 6 volume set / William St. Clair & Irmgard Maassen ($795)
    
    
12. Unknown London: Early Modernists of the Metropolis, 1815-1845, 6 volume set / John Marriott, Masaie Matsumura & Judith Walkowitz ($795)
    
    
13. Handbook of Chemoinformatics, /Johann Gasteiger, Wiley, 2003 ($750)
    
    
14. How to Build a Human: Genetic Science in the 21st Century; set of 4 DVDs ($639.95)
    
    
15. Spit in the Ocean. All issues published of this rare American literary periodical edited by Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary. (1974-81) ($610)
    
    
16. Women's Political Writings in 17th Century England, 4 volume set / Hilda L. Smith & Mihoko Suzuki ($560)
    
    
17. Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry / Jerry L. Atwood, Dekker, 2004 ($495)
    
    
18. Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering / Wnek and Bowlin ($495) *PURCHASED*
    
    
19. Der Kampf: Internationale Revue. A periodical published in Prague, by German writers who went into exile before WWII. Would be a great addition to our German exile collection. ($486)
    
    
20. Notices bibliographiques, philologiques, et littéraires. Charles Nodier. 1834. First edition of a rare collection of articles by Nodier, who was a librarian as well as a well-known author. This would be interesting for the emerging field of book history. ($482)
    
    
21. Les Vivants. A periodical published by prisoners and deportees during WWII in France. 1945-46. Edited by Robert Antelme, a major writer of the Holocaust. ($427)
    
    
22. Encyclopedia of Soil Science ($400)
    
    
23. Encyclopedia of Water Science, B. A. Stewart, Dekker, 2003 ($395)
    
    
24. Encyclopedia of Corrosion Technology / Philip A. Schweitzer. 2004 ($395)
    
    
25. L'Archibras: complete run of a surrealist periodical (1967-69). In original wrappers ($365)
    
    
26. Olympia. a legendary periodical published in Paris (1961-63). All issues published, in original wrappers ($365)
    
    
27. L'Amulette: Etrennes à nos jeunes amis. 1834. An interesting collection of texts by well-known French writers of the early 19th century. Original binding of the period (Romantic). These collections were a popular gift item (Etrennes later became the catch-all word for Christams gifts). ($361.50)
    
    
28. Les Etoiles, nouveau magazine. 1834 A rare periodical from the early 19th century, with a Romantic, signed, binding. ($361.50)
    
    
29. La Pléiade: revue littéraire, artistique, musicale & dramatique. We have this on microfilm, but the original 19th century issues would be a great addition to the early avant-garde collections. Rare to find this title published in 1886. ($330)
    
    
30. Littérature. Several issues of a very rare surrealist literary periodical, edited by André Breton. This would be a great addition to our avant-garde collection. (Each issue is $300.) The very first issue is listed, as well as 3 others.
    
    
31. The Anchor Bible Dictionary on CD-ROM, Logos Bible Software, 2003 ($229)  *PURCHASED*
    
    
32. After Darwin: Genetics, Eugenics, and the Human Genome (DVD) $209.95
    

Questions? E-mail Stacie Spence at sspence@jhu.edu or call 410-516-8327.