Author: Bridge, Carl.
Title: A Trunk Full of Books: History of the State Library of South Australia and Its Forerunners.
Description: Adelaide State Library of South Australia (SLSA) / Wakefield Press, 1986. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), glossy red synthetic cloth cover, autograph (director's written dedication). 266 pp. The first full-length history of an Australian state library written from its archives by a historian who links events to the fledgeling society of South Australia. The State Library of South Australia started in 1836, but not before a sea-chest full of books had to be dredged from the bottom of the Port River before a book could be read. (Written dedication is to Richard Shears of the Daily Mail on his visit to the State Library in 1997, signed by the Director of the Library.). ISBN: 0949268313

Keywords: communication, books, libraries, australian history, south australia, adelaide, autograph 0949268313


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