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Member: Aetatis

Library77 books — see library

Reviews24 reviews — see reviews

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Tags20th century (8), libraries (7), history of medicine (6), alabama (5), Books about books (4) — see all tags

GroupsArchivists on LibraryThing, Arrested Development, Birmingham Alabama, Books on Books, Librarians who LibraryThing

About me A librarian and book lover. Worked in an academic rare book medical library for ten years and spent the last five years in archives and special collections. Never handled an incunabula I didn't fall in love with and am especially fond of provenance copies and contemporary bindings. Collect bookplates and the books that go with them.

About my library I own an eclectic collection of books about books and history of medicine. I have just about every book Thomas Merton wrote (except "Elected Silence" the British edition of "The Seven Storey Mountain" edited by Evelyn Waugh--am still looking for that one) and am especially fond of travel books, biographies, and if they are combined, as in Boswell's "Journey to the Hebrides", well, that's perfection.

Lately, books about books and the history of libraries have been my current obsession.

In other words, just a typical bibliophile.

Homepagehttp://palimpsest.wordpress.com

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Real nameBarbara

LocationKentucky

Emailrevolutionibusgmail.com

Favorite authorsNone specified

Account typepublic, free

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Member sinceNov 2, 2005