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Re: anthropology texts to be saved (Sydney)
Abbie Widin (abbiew@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au)
9 Sep 1996 14:38:45 +1000
All the left over books have been bought by second-hand book
sellers, none will be pulped. I just went and checked with the
people who run it. They are, however, collecting books for the
next year sale already.
Abbie Widin
In <50dpv6$90f@staff.cs.su.oz.au> danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny) writes:
>Sydney Uni is holding their annual book sale, and as usual they are
>getting rid of a large number of old library books they no longer need
>multiple copies of. This year there are lot of classic works of
>ethnography -- works such as Malinowksi's _Coral Gardens and Their
>Magic_, Fortes' _The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi_, Firth's _The
>Work of the Gods in Tikopia_. All being sold for a couple of dollars
>each and the depressing thing is that the unsold books will be
>pulped! The thought is enough to make me cry, so I am buying as much
>as I can carry away. I doubt I'll ever find the time to read most of
>them, but there's room for another box of books under the house.
>Danny.
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