Sender: Rare Books and Special Collections Forum <EXLIBRIS@RUTVM1.BITNET>
In response to the request for biographical info:
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GILBERT SMITH. Professor of Spanish, North Carolina State Univer
sity, Raleigh. B.A., Baylor (1959); M.A., Tulane (1962); Ph.D.,
Brown (1971). My principal research interest is 18th-19th century
peninsular Spanish literature (Perez Galdos most of all), but I have
at one point been very interested in early (16th-17th c.) books in
Spanish, and have worked off and on at compiling an analytical
bibliography of the Spanish holdings of the Folger Library. My
strong extra-curricular interest is first printings of modern
Am / Eng fiction, primarily from 1937 (the year of my birth) on.
I have a collection of some 5,000, with greatest emphasis on some
obvious areas, such as Updike, Roth, Vonnegut, Vidal, Murdock,
Du Maurier, Marquand, O'Hara, etc..., and some unlikely ones,
such as <Triangle Books> (cheap hardbound reprints popular
around 1940-60) and first printings of popular reprints with
added material related to movie versions. When I first joined
this list in November, I indicated my interest in modern first
editions, but found that few others out there share my interest.
Lord knows, I keep trying......
---Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM>
P.O.Box 8106, NCSU
Raleigh, NC 27695-8106