Samuel J. Marino Collection.

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Samuel J. Marino Collection.

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The cornerstone of the Samuel J. Marino Collection is printing and publishing, with particular attention to newspaper and periodicals. No opportunity was ever missed to add to the history of a printer or publisher, or a newspaper or periodical, with no limit as to country or language, though the major holdings are of the United States, England, and France. The collection contains special editions, limited editions, autographed copied, small presses and publications of book clubs. It includes a substantial amount of first issues, special and commemorative issues of newspapers and periodicals. The music collections in the Marino Collection are a result of military service in Naples, Italy (1943-1946). It began, initially, with the acquisition of opera piano-vocal scores, vocal solos, religious choral works, hymnody and opera libretti. Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, became the focus in music. As a result, the holdings on Puccini span piano-vocal scores, libretti, biographies, bibliographies, criticism, and books and plays from which Puccini and his librettists adapted a short story, sections of a longer work or a play to the specific demands of opera. The successful Broadway Rock musical, "Rent," inspired by Puccini's "La Boheme," is represented with a copy of an instrument-vocal score and a number of ephemera. Pinocchio, the puppet, has challenged book illustrators and motion picture artists. One will find in the Marino Collection a goodly number of dissimilar and novel artistic renderings of the naughty puppet, including several video versions. On a visit to Bath, England, a facsimile copy of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in a superlative Bayntun and Riviere binding, was acquired. This was sent to McNeese in honor of Dr. W. N. Cusic, who, as President of McNeese State College, during difficult and changing times, had steered the course of the institution in a wise and courageous manner.

28.5 linear ft. (10 record storage boxes, 6 flat storage boxes, 2 tubes)

McNeese State University, Lether E. Frazar Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7915554

McNeese State University, Lether E. Frazar Memorial Library

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