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BOOKS, LIBRARIES, READING & PUBLISHING IN THE COLD WAR.
Anghelescu, Hermina G. B. and Martine Poulain.

   

- Washington D.C. : Center for the Book, Library of Congress 2002
- 8vo.
- cloth , dust jacket
- 298 pages
- ISBN 084441056X / Order Nr. 69624
- Price: $ 25.00

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This historic and important work is based on a series of papers presented at the 1998 International Federation of Library Associations conference in Paris. The work contains 26 essays focusing on the effects the Cold War had on Western and Communist libraries, publishers, cultural diplomacy, political censorship and the freedom to read. As a whole, this well-written work illuminates one of the most turbulent eras of library history. Published by the Center for the Book, Library of Congress.

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LE LIVRE DES BALLADES.
by Fort, Paul

Text in French. Limited, numbered edition of 1300. This edition one of 300 with extra color plates. First French edition (first English edition Some British Ballads,,Constable & Co, 1919). Fort (1872-1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), British illustrator and watercolorist (Latimore and Haskell 50-1; Gettings 179; Houfe 424). Tables of ballads and illustrations. Illustrations inside tan rules and gilt borders, some with tissue guards with reference to ballad and page on tissue. Original front stiff paper wrapper blue and tan design with Rackham illustration. Slipcase scuffed at edges. Boards scuffed at spine edge. Pencilled notes on rear free endpaper.




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