"payback"

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed Feb 29 03:36:29 UTC 2012


NYPL's catalog shows that it has vol. 23, 1923 of "Asia: Journal of the
American Asiatic Association"
 OFFSITE - Request in
Advance<http://www.nypl.org/help/get-what-you-need/access-offsite-collections>
  <http://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/Xt:(%22Asia+%3A+journal+of+the+American+Asiatic+Association%22)&searchscope=1&SORT=D/Xt:(%22Asia+%3A+journal+of+the+American+Asiatic+Association%22)&searchscope=1&SORT=D&SUBKEY=t%3A(%22Asia+%3A+journal+of+the+American+Asiatic+Association%22)/1%2C1%2C1%2CB/lasreq11421441&FF=Xt:(%22Asia+%3A+journal+of+the+American+Asiatic+Association%22)&searchscope=1&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C>
 BBA+ (Asia)<http://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/jBBA%2B+%28Asia%29/jbba%2B+asia/-3,-1,,B/browse>
 v.
23 (1923)
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> No, Joel. Most libraries carry the 1942-1946 volumes because of the war.
> The journal had been published since 1898. Only Brandeis and UConn carry
> the full pre-war range in the Northeast. I've checked every library that
> comes up on WorldCat--all of them have only the war years. Google is
> right, for a change.
>
> I am certain of the Hawaii bibliographic data being correct.
>
>    VS-)
>
>
> On 2/28/2012 9:33 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> I suspect a problem with Google's
>> metadata.  Harvard lists "Asia and the Americas"
>> as published from 1942 to 1946.
>>
>> Rather, Harvard lists a periodical titled "Asia :
>> journal of the American Asiatic Association"
>> whose vol. 17 is 1917; that might make a vol. 23
>> be 1923.  It holds vol. 23 at Biblioteca
>> Berenson, Florence, and in the Tozzer Depository,
>> in some location undisclosed by Harvard.  I don't
>> propose to go to either location myself.
>>
>> Joel
>>
>
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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