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Thread #155163   Message #3648446
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
05-Aug-14 - 06:19 AM
Thread Name: Contents for Sharp/Karpeles book
Subject: RE: Contents for Sharp/Karpeles book
Thank God someone's sorted that out. I once made an interlibrary loan reqest for a set of the 1932 edition of EFSFTSA from my local library. Hardly had I got home than the phone rang. "We've got the book you requested", said the voice on the other end. "It's in our library stock."

I'd already checked the stock holdings and knew perfectly well that they hadn't got a copy of that particular book, so I went back to said library. There the assistant handed me a copy of Eighty English folksongs.

"That's not it", I objected.

"Yes it is. That's what you ordered and that's what we've got."

"It isn't. This is a single volume, published by Faber in 1968. The one I want is in 2 volumes and it's about four times the size of that one, and it was published by Oxford UP in 1932."

The assistant said, and you can still see the dent in the library counter where I banged my head in utter abject frustration, "Well, I can't see the difference".

EFSFTSA had been out of print for years in those days. So, when I did eventually run a copy to earth, I photocopied the entire opus, lock, stock and barrel.