Lawrence Clark Powell, A Passion for Books, The World Publishing Company, copyright 1958, LOCN 1959, second printing. Black cloth with debossed flower and gilt lettering, 8vo, 254 uneven-cut pp. Ex-lib (G)/no DJ: lightly scuffed and bumped with tiny stain on back cover, library marks and pocket residue, library name (New Orleans) punched into title page, a few pencil markings, possible DJ excerpt pasted onto ffep.

Price: $8.50

Lawrence Clark Powell, Fortune and Friendship, R.R. Bowker Co., second printing, October 1968. Red cloth with debossed pattern on both covers and gilt lettering, 8vo, xiv, 228 with index, 16 pp of bw photos. Autobiography of a bookman, writer and world traveler, born to Quaker parents in 1906. Ex-lib (Good)/No DJ: corners bumped and spine scuffed, stickers, stamps and pocket including Baton Rouge bookplate, pages crisp.

Price: $11.95

Tommie Dora Barker, Libraries of the South: A Report on Developments, 1930-1935, American Library Association, 1936. Green cloth, 8vo, xvi, 216 pp with index, 3 bw plates, 12 maps and graphs. The book includes population statistics and mentions the shortage of libraries, the Depression and economic factors, and segregation with regard to access to books. Ex-lib (good)/no DJ: corners and edges lightly scuffed, library markings and pocket damage with black marker on page edges, a few light pencil markings, tight.

Price: $12.50

Arthur E. Bostwick (librarian of the St. Louis Public Library), The Making of an American's Library, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., September, 1915. Green cloth with gilt lettering and shield design, 8vo, viii, 160 pp with index. Collection of Bostwick's articles in "The Bookman" 1913-1914. Ex-lib (G )/no DJ: corners and edges worn with bump in rear edge and small tear at top of spine, library markings and pocket including bookplate from Xavier University, New Orleans on front pastedown, ink number on title verso and pencil marks on preface. Good quality feel.

Price: $22.00