Dear pure Librarians and corrupt Dealers,
I would like to react to the unmoderate propos of this list Moderator.
Is this really an accpetable attitude for a Moderator ? Has a
dictatorial attitude ever solved any problem? I am not sure...
Are the Prohibition and the McCarthysm periods the glorious pages of
American history ?
As a European I find all this relatively foolish, childish, and very
puritan as a behaviour. As a European, I had been envious of the
American warm relationships between dealers and librarians who worked
hand in hand instead of being born enemies (which is what exists in
France, where all dealers are accused of being agents of corrupt
capitalism, in opposition to the pure honest marxist civil servants).
Also, what would have been the contents of the present rare books
sections of university libraries without bookdealers' catalogues,
which enabled librarians to order whole trucks of books which were
exported to the U.S. after the second World War and up until the early
seventies? Not much! Is it a realistic attitude for a Librarian to
stay away from the corrupt world of dealers ?
La Fayette nous voila!
Alain Marchiset
Vice-President of the French Bookdealers Association
Also find an announcement of my new Web Catalogue of rare books:
http://www.Slam-Livre.fr/tersign
(to be forever after banished from this list)
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