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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 2m

Down the Great River. By Captain Willard Glazier. Early Reprint. Hubbard Brothers. Philadelphia, Circa 1895.

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The front cover of this early printing. It's in a maroon cloth with elaborate gilt stamping of the title text, a canoe and paddle, and the spine label of similar variation.

The title page showing the lengthy full title similar to other travel and conquest narratives.

A map of the waterways of northern Minnesota where Glazier purportedly discovered the actual source of the river (he was fabricating this claim).

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 23h

A Good Man Is Hard to Find. By Flannery O’Connor. First Edition, First Printing. Harcourt, Brace, & Co. New York, 1955.

Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

The front cover of the first edition. It's in a second-issue dust jacket with the same design as the first issue: yellow with vibrational patterns in red where the title text appears.

The copyright page showing the first edition statement.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 1d

If you, like me, sometimes need to generate thousands of clipping images from Chronicling America, then you may find this post helpful.

It provides my pipeline (code and explanatory text) for programmatically generating newspaper clipping images via the Chronicling America API.

How to Create Newspaper Clipping Images in Chronicling America, Programmatically – Matthew Johannes Kollmer

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 3d

One Battle After Another = best movie I’ve seen this year

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 3d

The Dead Zone. By Stephen King. First Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1979.

Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket with black background and large title text in a bronze gold. Below the text is an image of a man's face staring straight at the camera. Half of his face is shrouded by shadow. From the shadow a talisman of some sort emerges. The talisman is gold and circular.

The copyright page showing the Viking "First Published" statement.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 4d

Say what you will about the outfit, but can't deny that wizard frog is out there, doing the work.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 5d

At the gym, about to do deadlifts until existential dread goes away!

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 8d

The Wicked Series: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz. All Signed by Gregory Maguire. First Editions, First Printings. HarperCollins. New York, 1995-2011.

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All four volumes arranged in a row. At the front is the first edition of Wicked. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a leafless vine framing a pink space with the title text in a circular frame. Inside the circular frame the dust jacket has a gap showing the pictorial board underneath. The pictorial board shows the image of the Wicked Witch of the West in cap and robes, looking downward.

The title page of Wicked showing Gregory Maguire's signature in sharpie.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Matilda Evans performs surgery in the operating room of Taylor Lane Hospital which she founded in South Carolina in 1901.

Dr. Evans was a public heath pioneer & benefactor who treated Black & white patients. She was an advocate & practitioner of health care as a human right.

Grainy black and white image of women in nurses uniforms as they observe and assist Dr. Evan’s surgery (South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia)

Undated portrait of Dr. Evans (Legacy Center Archives & Special Collections, College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA)

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 8d

These unusually hot days are driving me nuts—like plz my whole wardrobe is built for autumn, just let it arrive

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 9d

I did always sort of suspect that meetings that could've been emails were a sign of fascism.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 10d

Fruity pebbles as a condiment on ice cream is perhaps my greatest discovery to date

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10d

Excited that longtime Viral Texts collaborator Avery Blankenship’s *American Literature* article is out—stemming from a chapter of her diss, it outlines her research using infrared spectroscopy to analyze food stains in C19 cookbooks—interesting for DH, book history, bibliography, and foodies alike

Literary Forensics as Method: Chemical Analysis, Food Stains, and Readerly Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks

Abstract. Much of the study of cookbooks relies on guesswork and reading between the lines that are written down—the type of guesswork that requires cookbooks be read alongside other types of texts ra...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 10d

. @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the September issue of #ReviewsInDH. Enjoy this new Reviews in the Classroom issue, featuring Hilary Havens' students from University of Tennessee. Thank you to topic editors R.C. Miessler, Kalani Craig & Lu Wang! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n9

Vol. 6, No. 9: September 2025 - Reviews in the Classroom · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 6, No. 9 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 13d

Rosa Parks: My Story. Signed by Rosa Parks. First Edition, First Printing. Dial Press. New York, 1992.

Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a portrait photo of Rosa Parks.

The half-title page showing Rosa Parks' dated signature.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14d

More people should be talking about this.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 14d

NEH Collaborative research grant program now explicitly prohibits digital projects. Output should be a book or journal issue. FFS
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...

Collaborative Research

Supports groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities.

www.neh.gov

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 14d

Mao Zhuxi Yulu [Quotations from Chairman Mao][The Little Red Book]. First Complete Edition, Third Edition Overall, First Printing. General Political Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Peking, 1965.

Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

The volume in original wrappers standing upright on its red clamshell box. It is plain tan with a red frame around the title text in Chinese.

The portrait of Mao in the front matter.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 15d

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Stay tuned this week for more on the fascinating winning collection and honorable mentions:

themillions.com/2025/09/meet...

Stylized image of a woman reading a book, adapted from a publisher's binding, with a banner reading "Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2025."

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 15d

Every time. Every optometrist I’ve ever seen. It’s get in, check prescription then sales pitch. Tired of it!

Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 15d

I wish that optometrists would function as a medical care providers first and foremost, not salespeople for brand name glasses and contacts. Nothing is more late-stage capitalism than seeking relief from eye problems, only to be suggested expensive Gucci frames.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 16d

So grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰

Madeleine Milburn Agency @mmagency.bsky.social · 16d

We are absolutely delighted to announce DATA EMPIRE: A Human History of Records and Rule by the incredible @roopikarisam.bsky.social 🧮

DATA EMPIRE will be published by PRH in the U.K. and HarperCollins in the US in July 2026

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Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 17d

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike.

Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

Software Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKA

ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b...

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 17d

Summer has officially ended.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 17d

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

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