Do you by chance have a list of the ones you already own, so you don't end up with duplicates?
Jen On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Robin Netherton wrote: > This seems like a good time to make my periodic request: > > For those of you who want to dump your Bad Old Costume Books, no need to foist > them off on unsuspecting victims! I will gladly pay for shipping to receive > donations to the Robin Netherton Home for Wayward Bad Costume Books. I do use > them constructively to improve the field. For one thing, I often get inquiries > from well-meaning scholars (beginning costumers, or historians in other > fields) who have found something on the library shelves and want my opinion on > it, so it helps if I have the books and can see what they're looking at. More > important, one of my favorite research approaches is to track back modern > misconceptions through the costume literature of the last 200 years, comparing > different sources to figure out where mistakes originated and how concepts > mutated from one author to the next. > > Donations are always welcome! It's for a good cause, and better than letting > these things fall into the hands of people who might actually use them for > costuming ;-) > > --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
