Adopt-a-Book donations are now accepted for select Special Collections & Archives items. Costs and descriptions of conservation types are listed below.

Donor’s name will be added to the protective box in honor of their contribution. Donations can also be made in the honor or memory of a person of the donor’s choice.

Featured Items for Adoption

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  Box Your Favorite Book
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  Child's Cabinet Library
  American Sunday School Union. 1827-1859.
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  Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars
  ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl. 1485. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt.
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  Dante's Divine Comedy
  Dante Alighieri. 1502. Venice: Press of Aldus Manutius.

Others Items Available for Adoption

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  A Curious Herbal
  Elizabeth Blackwell. 1739. London: Printed for John Nourse.
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  Description of Jamaica
  Richard Blome and Sir Thomas Lynch. 1672. London: Printed by T. Milbourn.
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  A New Universal Gazetteer
  R. Brooks and John Marshall. 1832. New York: Printed for W.W. Reed & Co..
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  Captain Cook's Voyage to the Pacific
  James Cook and James King. 1784. London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol... and T. Cadell.
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  Box Your Favorite Book
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  Child's Cabinet Library
  American Sunday School Union. 1827-1859.
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  Complete Book on the Judgment of the Stars
  ʻAlī Ibn Abī al-Rijāl. 1485. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt.
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  Galileo's Dialogue
  Galileo Galilei. 1635.
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  Dante's Divine Comedy
  Dante Alighieri. 1502. Venice: Press of Aldus Manutius.
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  Master Humphrey's Clock in original parts
  Charles Dickens. 1840-41. London: Chapman and Hall.
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  One Spaniard
  Gertrude Stein and Jan Bowles. 1928. Privately printed.
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  Philomathesian Society Banner
  David Bustill Bowser. 1857.
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  Sojourner Truth carte de visite
  1864.
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  Geneva Bible
  1599.
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  The Virginia Housewife, or, Methodical Cook
  Mrs. Mary Randolph. 1846. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co..
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  Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newly Printed
  Geoffrey Chaucer. 1551. London: Robert Toye.

To donate, contact Tanya Zanish-Belcher at zanisht@wfu.edu or 336-758-5755.