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From: Library Administrator's Digest
Date: 20051001
Author:Pollak, Oliver B

Books have been given as gifts even before Gutenberg. Publishers scramble to get their holiday list (Christmas and Hanukah) into the stores by October. I received Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1950, published in London pursuant to Book Production War Economy Standard, inscribed by Leslie Gutfreund with a black fountain pen "With Lots of Love from Leslie Christmas 1950." They moved to Johannesburg. I never read the book.

Donors know my interests or what they think they should guide me to. My childhood experience fostered caution about giving books. People have idiosyncratic interests. ...

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