Wow... that's... okay, those are fascinating and extremely valuable from a historical perspective. If they get put up, can you send me the listing information? Or, would the library consider donating them to a university library? Because those sorts of documents really need to be preserved, and I can put you in contact with relevant folks who would love to have that stuff in their university's collections.
(I am trying REALLY HARD not to covet the folktales books, because that sounds amazing, and really beautiful, and I cannot in fact afford them at the prices they are clearly worth.....it's not working, but I am trying really hard.)
The library is eternally scrambling for funding-- I am even having trouble wheedling them to buy bubble wrap and other packing material, which has resulted in some horrifying situations like an autographed copy of Stephen Jay Gould's first book getting mangled in the Snail when it was sent out in a plain padded envelope (without insurance) and a truck literally ran over it. So I don't know if there would be much luck in persuading them to donate stuff. (esp. when apparently some recently-retired(?) members of the library board somehow disappeared some of the Amazon proceeds from last year into misc. "operational expenses" for the board instead of actually, y'know, releasing the money back to the library
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Wow. Um. Yes, anything that they are not going to bother listing, I will quite happily take. I would absolutely buy all of it directly (plus of course paying for shipping and whatever packing material you need), but I worry that I would only be able to offer far less than what it is clearly worth based on the Amazon listing you quote.
(ah, the plight of the book-mad historian)
ETA: At least re: the price on folktale pamphlet you quoted; I have no idea what the listed value of the other English-language Japanese books might be. And I will close LJ now so that I cease spazzing about "Eeee! Books! I can totally find a way to fit that into the budget please let me buy them!" *g*
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Wow... that's... okay, those are fascinating and extremely valuable from a historical perspective. If they get put up, can you send me the listing information? Or, would the library consider donating them to a university library? Because those sorts of documents really need to be preserved, and I can put you in contact with relevant folks who would love to have that stuff in their university's collections.
(I am trying REALLY HARD not to covet the folktales books, because that sounds amazing, and really beautiful, and I cannot in fact afford them at the prices they are clearly worth.....it's not working, but I am trying really hard.)
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(ah, the plight of the book-mad historian)
ETA: At least re: the price on folktale pamphlet you quoted; I have no idea what the listed value of the other English-language Japanese books might be. And I will close LJ now so that I cease spazzing about "Eeee! Books! I can totally find a way to fit that into the budget please let me buy them!" *g*
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