Erika Giddens

@egiddens.bsky.social

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rare books, reference, she/her, hi! views my own

The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley, front cover. The Case of the Missing Type
Front cover of comic book Girls’ Love Stories #63
Meme from the tv show Community. Top image shows man standing in doorway holding boxes of pizza. Bottom image shows the rest of cast engaging in chaos and fire.
Aluminum statue of Puck covered in snow, on stone that reads “Lord, what fooled these mortals be”
Snowy Central Park
Exhibition sign from the Morgan Library’s Belle da Costa Greene exhibition, a World Magazine article about Belle at an auction
Exhibition case of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on a tablet next to a towel
Exhibition case from the Grolier Club’s Imaginary Books exhibition, showing the described lost Homer text as a Loeb Classical Library volume
Image of bookshelves and the Mark Twain exhibition from the Grolier Club
Letter dated January 2, 1941 addressed to Maggs Bros, Ltd. in London that reads: “Gentlemen: We have been informed that our letters of November 27 and December 2, 1940, have been lost through enemy action, and we are, therefore, sending you a copy of those orders together with a new order. "Please send to the Folger Shakespeare Library the following itens from your catalogue No. 696, subject to your usual terms of discount:”
I Wrote a Good Omelet BY NIKKI GIOVANNI I wrote a good omelet... and ate a hot poem... after loving you Buttoned my car... and drove my coat home... in the rain... after loving you I goed on red... and stopped on green... floating somewhere in between... being here and being there... after loving you I rolled my bed... turned down my hair... slightly confused but... I don't care... Laid out my teeth... and gargled my gown... then I stood ...and laid me down... To sleep... after loving you
Internet search for “arsenic poisoning” returns poison control help line number
“Play on!” printed using stamps