Book Holdings
Game and Playe of the Chesse (William Caxton, 1483).
Pforzheimer Library.
D.M. Croker, Two Masters (1893). R.L. Wolff
Collection of Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Bernard Malamud, The Natural (1952).
Contemporary Author Collection.
These are narrative descriptions of selected major book collections or period holdings. Not all collections are listed here. To locate an individual book title please search the University of Texas at Austin Library Catalog and limit to the Harry Ransom Center.
1455-1800
The Gutenberg Bible
Incunabula
Aldine Press
Recusant (English Catholics) Collection
18th-Century English Materials
John Henry Wrenn Library
Desmond Flower Collection of Voltaire
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
1801-1900
The Romantic Poets
The Robert Lee Wolff Collection of 19th-Century Fiction
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
Walt Whitman
Miriam Lutcher Stark Library
John Henry Wrenn Library
1901-
Author Collections
Samuel Beckett
John Fowles
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence
Norman Mailer
Ezra Pound
Vladimir Nabokov
George Bernard Shaw
John Steinbeck
Evelyn Waugh
Authors’ Libraries
T. Edward Hanley Library
Spanish Civil War Collection
The Alfred A. and Blanche Knopf Library
Selected Subject Collections
Architecture
Bibles
Detective Fiction
Dime Novels
English and Dutch Prize Bindings
History of the Book and Book Arts
Magic
Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sueltas (Spanish Drama)
C. L. Lundell Collection of Botanical Literature
Edward Alexander Parsons Collection
History of Science
Edward Larocque Tinker Library
Philip J. Jaffe Collection of Leftist Literature
Registration for the Flair Symposium, November 13-15, 2008, is now open. Registration is open to the public with a limited number of spaces available to students at a discounted price. Members of the Harry Ransom Center also receive a discount.
Watch broadcast journalist Mike Wallace's interviews from the television program The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace donated the show's footage on 16mm kinescope to the Ransom Center in the early 1960s. Most episodes have not been seen since they aired.
