Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating (1871) (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:22 AM -0400 5/16/10, George Thompson wrote:
>The Beinecke is Yale UL's Special Collection, isn't it? Have they
>put any of their stuff into storage?  But the catalog should say so.
>An odd book for someone to steal from a rare book room.

It could mean misfiled.

In any case, there is another copy listed in ORBIS (the Yale
e-catalogue) as being available in the regular collection at
Sterling, with the indicated status "Paging Slip Request".  The
Beinecke listing does suggest using Borrow Direct or Interlibrary
Loan.

LH


>
>A library's circulating copy of a 1929 book will have long since
>lost its dustjacket, but there will be special collections focussing
>on 20th C American lit which have books by Perelman.
>If I can believe the NYPL's new catalog, the 42nd street library's
>Berg Collectino has only one book by Perelman -- I think I don't
>believe it.
>The Fales Library at NYU is a likely place, but the NYU catalog has
>called in sick this weekend.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
>Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:56 am
>Subject: Re: Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating
>(1871) (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>>  Thanks, Garson, for more great stuff.  Note that the Beinecke
>>  Library's copy of "Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge" is said in the catalog to
>>  be "Unavailable," which probably means "Missing."
>>
>>  Fred Shapiro
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