Dear Safranim,
I may have copies in my archive of original Kar-Ben Publishing
children's books from 30+ years ago that I would be willing to donate
for archival purposes, if there are certain titles that might be of
interest for your collection.
Cordially,
Joni Sussman
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Shalom Safanim.
I wonder if approaching an institution like the Cotsen Children's
Library at Princeton (I believe the director is Andrea Immel) would
prove useful.
B'chavod rav.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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Thank you, Linda. This occurred to me sometime after I wrote in, but I
never got around to sharing the thought.
Dan Rettberg
drettb...@huc.edu
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Potentially, yes. All sorts of things end up in Special Collections and
for any number of reasons. I gave a paper at one of our conventions in
the 1990's on "What is a Rare Book?"
Dan Rettberg
Daniel J. Rettberg, Ph.D.
Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer
Klau Library
Hebrew Union College-Jewis
Dear Colleagues,
Here I go again. Convention in Seattle just over and despite my vows
to myself to kick back for a while,
I am weighing in on this question and also will be sending another
post on this topic. I believe Marilyn's work is definitely
appropriate in an historic collection. Jewish c
Dear Colleagues,
This idea is of particular interest to me. When we moved to Seattle I
boxed, shipped and stored a sizeable collection of children's books,
many if not most of them Judaic. Now that convention is over, I have
been intending to open the 10 or 12 boxes as soon as possible, sort
As a post-script to Dan Rettberg's excellent advice about what to
look for in duplicate copies, the illustrator is also very
important. Different editions of a book can have different
illustrators and you would want to save all of them.
Linda R. Silver
AJL Newsletter Reviews for Children an
Setting up criteria could be complicated.
For example, we have several copies of Marilyn Hirsh's Where is
Yonkela?--which I see sells for up to $154.00 on alibris. Yet its
copyright date is 1969. Would it qualify?
Andrea
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Andrea Rapp and Fred Isaac both write about old, or is it historic?,
children's books. Deciding which category describes a book is one of the
first steps in determining what to do with it. Age alone doesn't determine
historic value and current library thought has it that old books on the
shelf
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