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The Library Book
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Invest...
Victorian Buffalo
Take an insightful armchair tour of Buffalo as it looked in the 19th century. Victorian Buffalo showcases our region's glorious past by presenting a collection of steel engravings, woodcuts, lithography and other forms of nonphotographic art. Author Cynthia Van Ness has selected a medley of scenes that will give readers glimpses of everyday life as well as views of historic structures created by luminaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and E.B. Green. The book also highlights some obscure but fascinating local sites like the German American Brewing Company, White's Riding Academy, the Home for the Friendless and many other intriguing spots.
Building Buffalo
"This catalogue complements an exhibition of books generously given or carefully purchased to help Buffalo grow into a great metropolitan center. Collectively these books formed a comprehensive source of knowledge with which the Young Men's Association, the Buffalo Public and Grosvenor libraries--unified in 1953 as the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library--sought to educate architects and the public in the traditions that influenced our built environment. These volumes comprise only a portion of the architectural books housed in the library's Rare Book collection, which is one of the oldest and most extensive in an American public library. They are as much a part of Western New York's cultural heritage as its museums, parks, concert halls, theaters, and historic buildings. These enduring chronicles of the world's greatest architectural ideas supplemented the imaginations of the architects who shaped Buffalo. The ideas and images in these beautiful volumes helped build the buildings and landscapes that transformed Buffalo from a frontier village to a national metropolis."--Book flap.
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