Rare books from Salisbury House now housed at Grinnell College

Grinnell College is showing off its new collection of rare books, acquired from the Salisbury House in Des Moines. It includes some 5,000 first editions, signed books and documents from Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth the First and many other historical figures. Chris Jones, the college’s special collections librarian and archivist, says […]