The awakening: a fantasy, by Stella Benson, San Francisco: Published by Lantern Press & Printed by Grabhorn Press, 1925

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The Lantern Press was a partnership between antiquarian Leon Gelber and businessman Theodore Max Lilienthal in San Francisco.  They began their publishing company under the imprint Lantern Press. Many of their editions were printed at Grabhorn Press, beginning with Hildegard Flanner’s A Tree in Bloom and Other Verses (1924). Author Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English poet,… Read more »

UNT Libraries Acquires Rare First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, One of the Most Ambitious Illustrated Books of the 15th Century

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The University of North Texas Libraries is proud to announce the acquisition of a remarkable first edition of Liber Chronicarum cum Figuris et Ymaginibus ab initio Mundi—better known as the Nuremberg Chronicle—printed on July 12, 1493, by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, Germany. Widely regarded as one of the most celebrated and extensively illustrated incunables (books… Read more »
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