Just in time for Halloween…

The IUP Special Collections and University Archives recently acquired Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).  This is part of the Rare Book Collection, which is funded by donations to the Bill LaFranchi Endowment.  This collection, although it does not circulate, is utilized for instruction and research purposes by our students, faculty, and visiting scholars.  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is the first English edition of this title, although the first American edition was published less than a month earlier in 1885.  Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote Treasure Island and Kidnapped.  To learn more about the IUP Special Collections and University Archives, visit the department website, www.iup.edu/archives.