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Treasures from The Dalenberg Library

by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 14, 2016 | Dalenberg Library Gallery, Vintage

If you love musical theater, sooner or later you have to come to a reckoning with Paul Simon’s unjustly maligned masterwork “The Capeman,” which had a brief, tumultuous run on Broadway in 1998.  I count myself lucky to have attended one of those preciously rare 68...

Treasures from The Dalenberg Library

by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 8, 2016 | Dalenberg Library Gallery, Vintage

   Here is our time-worn copy of the The Kinks’ album Arthur from 1969, released in the US on Reprise Records division of what was then called Warner Bros-Seven Arts Records.  Cover rubbed from years of being repeatedly taken on and off the shelf for a...

Great Books from the Dalenberg Library

by Dale Dalenberg | May 24, 2015 | Antique Book Reports, Books, Reviews, Vintage

Great Books from The Dalenberg Library:   In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, by Douglas Curran (Abbeville Press, originally published 1985; updated and expanded 2001)       Mr. Curran started out as a photographer with an interest in snapping...

The Dawn of “Science-Fiction”: A Hugo Gernsback magazine from 1929

by Alex Dalenberg | Feb 9, 2015 | Fantasy, Vintage

By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.February 9, 2015It is hard to believe these days, considering its popularity in the movies and pervasiveness on bestseller lists, but science fiction has only been around for less than 100 years.  Much has been written about the origins...

Old Books: The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson (Oxford University Press, 1923)

by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 5, 2015 | Books, Vintage

By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 5, 2015It was Robert Frost who likened writing free verse to playing tennis with the net down.  And in keeping with that opinion, it certainly is easy to get the impression that most modern poetry is just lazy writing. ...

Forgotten Tales in Orange Wrappers: Beadle’s Dime Novels

by Alex Dalenberg | Dec 29, 2014 | Books, Vintage

By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.December 29, 2014A cornerstone of the Dalenberg Library is a collection of about six-hundred 19th Century dime novels.  These are the wellspring from which pop-lit (as we know it from the 20th Century) evolved.  The dime novels,...
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