David Anton Randall, 1905-1975

by Dean H. Keller, David Anton Randall

Overview

David A. Randall (1905-1975) had a remarkable career as a book dealer before embarking on a second and equally remarkable career as a rare book librarian. Keller describes those careers in this book and provides a generous sampling of Randall's writing on rare books, book collecting, and bibliography. The author includes a chronological list of his published work, a list of catalogs Randall issued as a rare book dealer, and a list of catalogs of the excellent exhibits he sponsored as head of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Randall's son Ronald, who has followed in his father's footsteps as a rare book dealer, introduces the book with a warm rememberance of his father, and there is a frontispiece portrait of Randall and an index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810826243
Publisher:	The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/1992
Series:	Great Bibliographers Series , #10
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.64(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Dean H. Keller (BA, MLS, Kent State University) is Associate Dean of Libraries and Professor of Library Administration at Kent State University, where he has held several positions, including Head of Humanities Division and Curator of Special Collections, since 1958. He has held a Lilly Fellowship in Rare Book Librarianship at Indiana University and was exchange librarian at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a member of several library and bibliographical organizations and has been editor of The Serif, book review editor for the Bulletin of Bibliography, and on the editorial boards of Credences and Steinbeck Quarterly. His articles and reviews have appeared in professional journals, and among his books are An Index to the Colophon (Scarecrow, 1968), A Fool's Errand (Scarecrow, 1969), and An Index to Plays in Periodicals (Scarecrow, 1971).

Editorial Reviews

Keller does a fine job of demonstrating Randall's influence on rare book scholarship and librarianship....Librarians from time to time wonder if rare books are worth the expense and effort to maintain...David Randall's essays...provide an answer....an excellent addition to any collection connected to a library science or rare books program.

The Journal Of Academic Librarianship

Keller does a fine job of demonstrating Randall's influence on rare book scholarship and librarianship....Librarians from time to time wonder if rare books are worth the expense and effort to maintain...David Randall's essays...provide an answer....an excellent addition to any collection connected to a library science or rare books program.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

...a highly readable selection of excerpts from Randall's published works and a chronological checklist of his writings and of his catalogues both as a rare book dealer and as a librarian.

Bookdealer

If these be the terms of greatness in a bibliographer—collection growth and influence in his chosen field—then Randall certainly deserves his place in Scarecrow Press's Great Bibliographers series.

Indiana Magazine of History

If these be the terms of greatness in a bibliographer—collection growth and influence in his chosen field—then Randall certainly deserves his place in Scarecrow Press's Great Bibliographers series.

Indiana Magazine Of History

Keller does a fine job of demonstrating Randall's influence on rare book scholarship and librarianship....Librarians from time to time wonder if rare books are worth the expense and effort to maintain...David Randall's essays...provide an answer....an excellent addition to any collection connected to a library science or rare books program.

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Keller does a fine job of demonstrating Randall's influence on rare book scholarship and librarianship....Librarians from time to time wonder if rare books are worth the expense and effort to maintain...David Randall's essays...provide an answer....an excellent addition to any collection connected to a library science or rare books program..

Journal Of Academic Librarianship

A collection of excerpts from Randall's writings, describing his career as a rare-book librarian and book dealer. Also includes an essay on his career, a chronological list of his published works, a list of rare-book and exhibit catalogues he issued, and a memoir by his son. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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