#Facsimile Editions

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"Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars" Hits 40th Anniversary in 2024

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars from Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck, and Bob Layton was a Marvel Comics' first massive comic book crossover event. For the 40th anniversary of this milestone, Marvel Comics has a few celebrations planned - facsimile editions of Secret Wars and Amazing Spider-Man as well as a new saga set during Secret Wars!

During Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, The Beyonder assembled Spider-Man and members of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men on Battleworld to fight an army of villains. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom and Magneto are each hatching their own plans.

Marvel Comics is re-presenting all 12 issues of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars as facsimile editions, meaning you get the ads and all. Each facsimile edition will also be available with new variant covers and special foil variant covers.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 Facsimile Edition (of 12), from writer Jim Shooter and artist / cover artist Mike Zeck, goes on sale on January 3, 2024. Following issues will release monthly.

The anniversary of Secret Wars also marks the anniversary of Spider-Man's black costume, which would one day become Venom. The issue, released the same month as Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1, took place after the events of Secret Wars, leaving readers to guess as to the mystery of this new suit. Marvel Comics is releasing facsimile editions of Roger Stern, Tom Defalco, and Ron Frenz's Amazing Spider-Man #252 and it's following issues monthly, coinciding with the facsimile editions of Secret Wars.

Amazing Spider-Man #252 Facsimile Edition, from writers Roger Stern and Tom Defalco and artist / cover artist Ron Frenz, goes on sale on January 31, 2024.

Announced earlier this year, Marvel Comics is also releasing a new 4-issue story set during Secret Wars. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld hails from writer Tom DeFalco and artist Pat Olliffe.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld takes place after Spider-Man receives the black suit. The story will also show characters not previously seen fighting in the original Secret Wars saga, characters like Baron Zemo, Hobgoblin, Electro, and Constritor.

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1 (of 4) goes on sale on November 22, 2023. The first issue features a main cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, a variant cover by Pat Olliffe, a variant cover by Francesco Mobili, an homage variant cover and a virgin homage variant cover by Ryan Stegman, a connecting variant cover by Todd Nauck, a Saturday Morning variant cover by Sean Galloway, and an Action Figure variant cover by John Tyler Christopher.

(Images via Marvel Comics - Mike Zeck's Cover of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1 Facsimile Edition, Ron Frenz's Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #252 Facsimile Edition, Giuseppe Camuncoli’s Cover of Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld #1)

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Do you all know the 16th century Old Yiddish chivalric epic Bovo d'Antona? Have you ever wanted to read a facsimile of the original 1541 edition? In vaybertaytsh font and everything? The Yiddish Book Center's got one fully digitized.

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Staff Pick of the Week

The commemorative box created by the publisher.

Parts of the letter that Beatrix Potter wrote to her governess’s son, Noel.

Staff Pick of the Week

Before The Tale of Peter Rabbit became a well-loved children’s book for those in England, and eventually spreading further, it was a story created for one special boy. Beatrix Potter was very fond of her last governess, Annie Moore, who had left her position in order to get married. The two women kept in touch and Beatrix was known to send Moore’s growing family illustrated letters featuring many animal friends. When Moore’s eldest son Noel fell ill, Beatrix wrote him one of her famous letters and Peter Rabbit was born.

The idea of publishing Peter Rabbit didn’t come to mind until it was suggested by fellow author, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Despite Peter Rabbit’s monumental success presently, Potter’s story was rejected multiple times and she ended up publishing it herself in 1901, though it was a limited quantity and sold within her social circle. To no one’s surprise, however, it was a big hit! Frederick Warne & Co had rejected the idea the first time around but quickly reconsidered, if Beatrix would do the illustrations in color. This she did, and the first edition was published by Warne in October 1902. After that, the story took off, and is now a “must have” on children’s bookshelves.

To commemorate 100 years of the original Peter Rabbit picture letter of 1893, Frederick Warne & Co created this 1993 limited-edition commemorative box set in a limited edition of 1175 copies that includes a copy of the original Peter Rabbit letter and facsililes of her privately-printed edition of 1901 and the first deluxe Warne editon of 1902, all printed and bound by the venerable William Clowes Limited. Although it’s a facsimile, it was made to look and feel exactly like the original. It’s very convincing! I chose this book as my first staff pick not only because I like her artwork but because it looked like it might’ve been an original.  

View another Beatrix Potter post. 

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-- Sarah W., Special Collections Undergraduate Intern

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Cerebus the Aardvark #1 (Facsimile Edition 2024)

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Whiz Comics (1940) #2

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Jan Christian Sepp The Book of Marble

A representation of Marble Types 1776

Directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen

Geert-Jan Koot

Taschen , Cologne 2023, 312 pages, 32 26 cm, Hardcover in slipcase, 100 richly hand-coloured plates, ISBN 978-3836594349

euro 100,00

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Famous First Edition: First printing of 10,000 numbered copies

An exhaustive compendium of marble, Afbeelding der Marmor Soorten (A Representation of Marble Types) depicted 570 samples across 100 colour plates, accompanied by texts in five languages. Published in 1776 at the peak of the Enlightenment, it is regarded, rightly, as one of the finest illustrated scientific books of the era.Over the course of the 18th century, beautiful books that categorised, annotated, and illuminated the Enlightenment pursuit of learning across Europe had become increasingly popular. Knowledge was everything and everywhere, and these books provided it for those not wealthy enough to build their own personal collections of rare and exotic objects. Marmor Soorten, one such edition, took the standards of both aesthetics and categorisation to a whole new level.Jan Christiaan Sepp and his father Christian – himself a respected collector – had already earned a reputation for luxury publications on scientific themes, starting with Christian’s own Nederlandsche Insecten (Insects of the Netherlands). But it was his son who created the visual masterpiece Marmor Soorten, revising an existing German publication from 1775 by Adam Ludwig Wirsing. The result – published in 11 instalments to a print run of around 100 – was among the finest examples of its kind.Featuring new photography to depict the intricate details of the marble samples, this edition brings an unknown treasure back to relevance. The plates, each meticulously hand-coloured and arranged with painstaking precision, have an abstract-art feel that gives this volume an almost modern slant.This edition reproduces the pages from two copies of Marmor Soorten held at the State and University Library in Dresden and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Reprinting the work in full for the first time, The Book of Marble brings that rare blend of beauty and encyclopedic knowledge to a wider audience.

04/06/23

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Tulips

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses And my history to the anesthetist and my body to surgeons.

They have propped my head between the pillow and the sheet-cuff Like an eye between two white lids that will not shut. Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in. The nurses pass and pass, they are no trouble, They pass the way gulls pass inland in their white caps, Doing things with their hands, one just the same as another, So it is impossible to tell how many there are.

My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water Tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently. They bring me numbness in their bright needles, they bring me sleep. Now I have lost myself I am sick of baggage— My patent leather overnight case like a black pillbox, My husband and child smiling out of the family photo; Their smiles catch onto my skin, little smiling hooks.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year-old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. They have swabbed me clear of my loving associations. Scared and bare on the green plastic-pillowed trolley I watched my teaset, my bureaus of linen, my books Sink out of sight, and the water went over my head. I am a nun now, I have never been so pure.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

The tulips are too red in the first place, they hurt me. Even through the gift paper I could hear them breathe Lightly, through their white swaddlings, like an awful baby. Their redness talks to my wound, it corresponds. They are subtle: they seem to float, though they weigh me down, Upsetting me with their sudden tongues and their color, A dozen red lead sinkers round my neck.

Nobody watched me before, now I am watched. The tulips turn to me, and the window behind me Where once a day the light slowly widens and slowly thins, And I see myself, flat, ridiculous, a cut-paper shadow Between the eye of the sun and the eyes of the tulips, And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself. The vivid tulips eat my oxygen.

Before they came the air was calm enough, Coming and going, breath by breath, without any fuss. Then the tulips filled it up like a loud noise. Now the air snags and eddies round them the way a river Snags and eddies round a sunken rust-red engine. They concentrate my attention, that was happy Playing and resting without committing itself.

The walls, also, seem to be warming themselves. The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals; They are opening like the mouth of some great African cat, And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea, And comes from a country far away as health.

Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (HarperCollins, 2004)

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Eis, Eis Baby

Gerhard Richter made a 41-color [!] screenprint version of a squeegee painting as a fundraiser edition for Lincoln Center, but also as a poster. At this point, though they're literally made from the same screens on the same paper, the signed prints are selling for like 30x the posters.

[concertoforagashedthroat]

if you see me spelling things incorrectly it's because ive been looking at books from 1500

[chronivore]

Classic Traveller Facsimile Edition - Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) | DriveThruRPG

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jon looking for the single page of g. henle verlag urtext floating inbetween all the sloppily filed facsimile and interpretive editions in the conservatory archives anyways u want to listen to the entirety of my fledgling conservatory au playlist in chronological order sooooo bad (smile)

[marcogiovenale]

desemantized writing in the journals of allen ginsberg and william burroughs / jim leftwich. 2022

pdf @ slowforward: https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/jim-leftwich_-desemantized-writing-in-the-journals-of-allen-ginsberg-and-william-burroughs.pdf  

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Facsimile Reprint.

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H.R. Giger: N.Y. City - Facsimile Edition (2021)