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Collection Management & Development Program
Collection Development Policies

Rare Books Collecting Intensity

Existing
A. Individual authors*
Henry Beston 4
Ambrose Bierce 4
Edmund Blunden 4/5
Wilfred Scawen Blunt 4/5
Rupert Brooke 5
Robert Burns 4/5
Witter Bynner 4
Erskine Caldwell 5
Cervantes 3
Winston Spencer Churchill 4
Samuel Langhorne Clemens 4
Joseph Conrad 4
Stephen Crane 4
J. Frank Dobie 3
Richard Eberhart 5
Robert Frost 5
John Galsworthy 4
R.B. Cunninghame Graham 4
Maurice Henry Hewlett 4
W. H. Hudson 4/5
James Gibbons Huneker 4
Aldous Huxley 4
T. E. Lawrence 4
Vachel Lindsay 4
Jack London 4
E. V. Lucas 4
Herman Melville 4/5
H. L. Mencken 4/5
Henry Miller 4
Anais Nin 4
Eugene O'Neill 4
Sylvia Plath 4
Kenneth Roberts 5
John Ruskin 3
Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell 4
Gertrude Stein 4
Wallace Stevens 4
Genevieve Taggard 4/5
Edward Thomas 4/5
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford 5
Henry Williamson 4
B. Special-designation collections
Americana (McGregor, etc.) 3
Bindings 3
Bookplates 3
Broadsides 2
Calligraphy 3
Illustrated Books 3
Incunabula 3
Juveniles 2
New Hampshire Imprints 5
1926 Collection 5
Presses 4/5
Railroads (Chase-Streeter) 3/4
Stefansson 5
Theatre (Williams/Watson) 4
White Mountains 4

*Intensity levels 1, 2, and most 3s omitted for brevity's sake; level 5 generally indicates that Dartmouth's collection is premier. A new descriptive publication, A Brief Guide to Printed Books in Special Collections is at press.


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Last updated October 8, 1996 by: CMDC@Dartmouth.Edu (mjs)