Washington: GPO, 1901. 8vo. cloth. 380 pages. With plates showing both the inside and outside of the library and long reports on important gifts and acquisitions. Slightly shaken. READ MORE about REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS ... 1901
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 72748
Amherst: The Jones Library, 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 115 pages. First edition. The history of the Jones Library in Amherst. Includes several photographs, a list of acknowledgments and an index. The dust jacket is foxed along spine. READ MORE about THE JONES LIBRARY IN AMHERST 1919-1969
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 96183
Munich: K.G. Saur, 1984. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 194 pages. Proceedings of a symposium at the inaguration of the new building of the Royal Library in The Hague, 29 September-1 October, 1982. A number of scholars presented papers in seven sessions, with an opening and closing session. Those papers are published here with the discussions after their presentation. Table of contents and listing of participants. READ MORE about LARGE LIBRARIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114606
Yardley, Pa. F.S. Cook & Son, 1928. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. x, 168 pages. First edition. Sixteen articles on the subject taken from different library conventions. Scarce title. READ MORE about SOME ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY COOPERATION
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 10130
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1964. 12mo. paper wrappers. (x), 94 pages. Reissue of the 1911 first edition. The author sites various sources in Egyptian writings to describe the library as it existed in ancient Egypt. READ MORE about SOME OLD EGYPTIAN LIBRARIANS
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 10264
New York: The Hadham Press, 1949. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 90, (4) pages. First edition. A technical and philosophical approach to the subject. Inscribed on front free endpaper "With the holiday good wishes of the Riders - this (just out) little book!" Jacket faded with pieces missing along top edge. READ MORE about COMPACT BOOK STORAGE; SOME SUGGESTIONS TOWARD A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR THE SHELVING OF LESS USED...
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N.P. n.p., 1970. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63-70 pages. Text in Swedish with brief summary and some quotations in text in English. Comments on the significance of catalogues issued by rare book dealers and book-auction firms. Presents an argument for their availability in library reading-rooms. Reprint from the Scandanavian Journal of Books and Libraries, LVII. Inscription of collector Gavin Bridson on front endpaper. READ MORE about ANTIKVARIATSKATALOGERNA-NÅGRA SYNPUNKTER
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(Phoenix, AZ): Oryx Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth. xii, (ii), 153 pages. First edition. 12 chapters on different aspects of the subject. READ MORE about LIBRARY LEADERSHIP: VISUALIZING THE FUTURE
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Austin: Humanities Research Center, (1972). 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 19+(1) pages. I.e. at the University of Texas at Austin. Illustrations. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY RESEARCH MATERIALS, A DECADE OF LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION
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(Sydney): Collins Publishers in association with The State Library of New South Wales, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xiv), 194 pages. First edition. Foreword by Robert Hughes. Includes a section on David Scott Mitchell whose collection formed the basis of this library. Many illustrations including a number in color. Signed by the author on the title page. With the pencil siganture of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about TREAURES OF THE STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, THE AUSTRALIANA COLLECTIONS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 99990
Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, School of Library Science, (1972). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, tape spine. (iii), iv, 85 pages. Papers presented at a seminar. 11 essays. Part of tape on spine is cracked. READ MORE about URBAN CHANGE AND PUBLIC LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT, SELECTED PAPERS
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Library Science Text Series
Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1984. 8vo. paper covered boards. [xii], 285 pages. Library Science Text Series. A historical look into American and international library science. Preface, introduction, index. No dust jacket issued. READ MORE about THE LIBRARY IN SOCIETY
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Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1972. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, glassine wrapper. 62 pages. Papers presented by Samuel Rothstein, Richard Blackwell, Archibald Macleish at York University, Toronto, on the occasion of the dedication of the Scott Library, 30 October, 1971. Some photographs of the new building are included and a color coat of arms has been laid-in. The endpapers are notable as they are photographs of the interior of the new library. READ MORE about THE UNIVERSITY - THE LIBRARY
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New York: Special Libraries Association, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vii, 96 pages. Proceedings of a seminar sponsored by the Library Binding Institute and the Princeton-Trenton Chapter of Special Libraries Association, held at Rutgers University. Errata slip laid in. READ MORE about PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS
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London: University of London, 1910. 8vo. cloth. xii, 206 pages. Second edition, enlarged. With 16 illustrations. Histories of the libraries followed by other information. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about LIBRARIES OF LONDON, A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 1932
Frankfurt: Deutsche Bibliothek, 1983. 8vo. paper wrappers. 30 pages. The history, organization, and mission of the Deutsche Bibliothek. READ MORE about DIE DEUTSCHE BIBLIOTHEK
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Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1968. 1968, 8vo., cloth. 215 pages. Reproduced from typescript. Includes a chapter on the future. READ MORE about THE MODERN SCHOOL LIBRARY
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London: The Library Association, 1967 (but 1968). small 8vo. cloth. xviii, 174 pages. Lectures delivered at a symposium in Sheffield, England during a course in librarianship for overseas librarians. Topics include public library buildings, library services to children, librarianship education, and others. Indexed. Some underlining in ink, front free end-paper clipped. READ MORE about LIBRARIANSHIP IN BRITAIN TODAY
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London: Grafton & Co., 1942. 8vo. cloth. vii, 247 pages. First edition. Ex library copy with markings. READ MORE about THE LIBRARIAN AND HIS COMMITTEE
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London: Grafton & Co., 1952. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 179 pages. First edition. Autobiographical discussion of the author's work as a librarian and the people who influenced him. "Past President of the Library Association, Sometime Librarian of the Edinburgh Public Libraries." READ MORE about A LIBRARIAN'S MEMORIES, PORTRAITS & REFLECTIONS
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Compiled by Marjeanne Jensen Blinn. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
New York: The Viking Press, (1965). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 173 pages. Compiled by Marjeanne Jensen Blinn. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition. Sayers was a well-known children's librarian. Contains a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Review copy with slip loosely inserted. READ MORE about SUMMONED BY BOOKS, ESSAYS AND SPEECHES BY FRANCES CLARKE SAYERS
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Frankfurt am Main: (Johannes Weisbecker), 1973. 4to. cloth. 94 pages. Limited to 250 numbered and signed copies. Text in German. Schauer was a co-founder of the German National Library in 1948 after the post-World War II division of Germany. Schauer began his career in 1922, earning a doctorate at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Bibliography. Back board lightly faded. READ MORE about DIENST AM BUCH 1922-1972
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 107647
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science, 1962. 8vo. cloth. 286 pages. Reprinted from Library Trends. Illinois Contributions to Librarianship No.6. Fold mark in title page. READ MORE about THE FUTURE OF LIBRARY SERVICE: DEMOGRAPHIC ASPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS
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Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, (1966). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 196, (4) pages. Various articles and statistics on German libraries. Front cover worn and detached. READ MORE about FÜNFZEHN JAHRE BIBLIOTHEKSARBEIT DER DEUTSCHEN FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT 1949-1964, ERGEBNISSE UND...
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Berlin: Adrema-Werke, n.d. 4to. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. On systems and possibilities in library documentation. Wrappers rubbed and faded. Wrapper partially detached at spine. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEK UND DOKUMENTATION--VERFAHREN UND MOGLICHKEITEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51231
