| Author | Pearson, Edmund Lester, 1880-1937.
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| Title | The old librarian's almanack / by [Philobiblos] a very rare pamphlet first published in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1773 and now reprinted for the first time ...
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| Published | Woodstock, Vt. : Published by the Elm Tree Press, 1909.
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| Description | [35] p., 1 leaf of plates : facsim. ; 23 cm.
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| Series | The librarian's series, ed. by J. C. Dana and H. W. Kent ; no. 1
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| General Note | A hoax, attributed by Pearson, the actual author, to a fictitious 18th C. librarian named Jared Bean.
Pseud. on t.p. in Greek.
Preface by Edmund Lester Pearson.
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| Cit./Ref. Note | Indexed by: Wiegand, W. The history of a hoax.
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| Subjects | Librarians -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Libraries -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
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| Related Titles | Librarian's almanack.
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| LC Card Number | 10-1178 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Z 682.5 P4
mq142158: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 79198] |
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