Greer attacks mutilation of precious books, Times, 10/6/97

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Series[UMA-SRE-20140046] PRINT JOURNALISMAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004600466Scope and ContentContains: letter of invitation to be patron of Antiquarian Book Fair, 24 February; reply? not in file; another letter from Vanessa Clewes Salmon; letters from Jolyon Hudson; attempts to rewrite introduction; GG withdraws; 'controversy'; letter from Jim McCue; letter from Sarah Brooks researcher on 'The Antiques Show'; letter from David Micklethwait; letter and enclosures from Karen Thomson; Inquiry from Antiquarian Booksllers Assn of Amercia 14 July;
copy of the ABAA newsletter Summer 1997 with GG piece and Peter Miller rejoinder (feeble); letter from Roger Gaskell, ABA to vote on book-breaking; letter from Alex Fotheringham; letter from letter from Joanna Willcocks; letter from Francis Bennion; letter from G. C. R. Morris; letter from illeigble at Anglia; letter from J. M. Wober [verbatim Greer inventory]. Substantial cache of documents relating to Germaine Greer's introduction to the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association June 1997 catalouge for the London book fair. The ABA refused to publish the piece. It subsequently ran in The Times on 10 June 1997, along with Jim McCue's news story, 'Greer attacks mutilation of precious books'. Other correspondents: Deborah Stratford; Norm Cook; Charles Mont; Francis Bennion; Bad English Monitoring Unit; Joanne Willcock; Alex Fotheringham; Roger Gaskell; John Farmer; Lars Forsberg; Rob Rulon-Miller; Karen Thomson; Sarah Brooks; Jim McCue; Emma Parry; Joylon Hudson.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0046 Unit 0007

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date1997-1997

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Greer attacks mutilation of precious books, Times, 10/6/97