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All, Thank you for the valuable feedback on our 1859 *Godey's Lady's Book*. We received a request to donate it and shall be sending it to a museum. Sincerely, Brian On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:33 AM Virginia <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you wish to sell the book in its entire—I recommend contacting a > antique dealer specializing in women’s antique fashion or a used book > dealer specializing in periodicals. > To be honest, it will almost certainly make more money being split up and > sold for prints though—and again an art dealer/ gallery specializing in > antique prints or antique dealer can appraise it for you. > > If you’d like referrals, please contact me off list. > Virginia Roberts > Rhinelander District Librarian > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > ------------------------------ > *From:* ARLIS/NA List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Brian Hickam > <[log in to unmask]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 5, 2018 11:28:58 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [ARLIS-L] 1859 ed. of Godey’s Lady’s Book ? > > Greetings from central Illinois, > > We would like your recommendations on selling a rare book or illustrations > from it. We have an 1859 edition of *Godey’s Lady’s Book* that was never > accessioned into our archives or cataloged. It was in a box of other old > books for twenty or more years. > > The book is in FAIR condition as the front cover and spine binding are > separated, the first several pages are almost separated, and many pages > have small stains on them. > > An emeritus professor has suggested that the illustrations are sought > after by collectors. > https://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/godeys-ladys-book/ > http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/images/picsgodey.html > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godey%27s_Lady%27s_Book > > If we wish to sell the book as a whole or the individual illustrations, > what would be the best way? Any recommendations for a good home for the > book as is? > > Thank you, > Brian > -- > Brian A. Hickam, MSMOB, MLIS > Director of the Lumpkin Learning Commons & Head Librarian > Blackburn College > 700 College Avenue Carlinville, IL 62626 > 217-854-5663; [log in to unmask] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining > ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send > administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to > [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy > Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- Brian A. Hickam, MSMOB, MLIS Director of the Lumpkin Learning Commons & Head Librarian Blackburn College 700 College Avenue Carlinville, IL 62626 217-854-5663; [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~