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

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:34 PM -0400 5/16/10, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>I have put in a request to retrieve the copy from the Sterling
>Library stacks, but this presumably will not have the dustjacket and
>thus not be helpful.
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>Fred Shapiro

Oh, right, I forgot that the dust jacket was crucial.  I hadn't known
Beinecke preserved dust jackets, although I know Sterling doesn't;
the volumes I've looked at from Beinecke predate the invention of the
dust jacket.

LH

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>From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
>Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:39 PM
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>Subject: Re: Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating
>(1871)              (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)
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>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.
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>It could mean misfiled.
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>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.
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>LH
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>>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.
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>>GAT
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>>George A. Thompson
>>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>>Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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>>----- 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
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>>>   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."
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>>>   Fred Shapiro
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