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LIBRARY HISTORY RESEARCH IN AMERICA, ESSAYS COMMEMORATING THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBRARY HISTORY ROUND TABLE.
Wertheimer, Andrew B. and Donald G. Davis, Jr

   

- Washington : Library of Congress, The Center for the Book 2000
- 8vo.
- cloth.
- vi, 279 pages.
- ISBN 0844410209 / Order Nr. 60641
- Price: $ 35.00

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First edition. Foreword by John Y. Cole, followed by 16 separate essays on library history. These include Lee Shiflett on Louis Shores, John David Marshall on the Library History Round Table, Wayne A. Wiegand on library literature produced over the period 1947-1997, and many other interesting essays. Also has an essay entitled "In Memory of Oivind M. Hovde (1911-1986)." This collection was originally published as a special issue of the journal Libraries and Culture, Winter 2000, 35:1.

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Third English edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (Woolmer 155; Kirkpatrick A3c). Published November 1927; the British Museum copy is dated 17 November 1927 (Kirkpatrick). Illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Brief novel set in the luxuriant flora of Kew Gardens. Front board decorated azure blue, lime-green and milk-chocolate brown. Title page also milk-chocolate brown. Text, on recto of leaf only, is surrounded by black and white illustrations by Bell. Printed and engraved by Herbert Reiach, Limited. Spine rebacked. Boards soiled and stained, slightly worn at edges. Pencil notations on back pastedown. Slight tanning.




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