A modest collection
Subtitle: Private Libraries Association, 1956-2006.
Contributors: Chambers, David, 1930-; Private Libraries Association.
Publisher: Private Libraries Association
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Pinner [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780900002670
Subjects: Private Libraries Association -- History.; Book collectors -- Great Britain.; Private libraries -- Great Britain.; Privately printed books -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.; Book collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Book collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century.
Other titles: The private library.
Notes: "Edited, designed, and typeset in Sabon by David Chambers"--T.p. verso.

"Here, in the guise of the story of our Association, is an account of friendships between its members over the past fifty years.  They have all been collectors with widely diffferent interests, from countries across the world, united by a love of books and the need to be surrounded by them at the end of a day's work, and in the years of retirement ... The first three chapters which follow are reprinted from 'The Private Library, Autumn and Winter 1980 and Spring 1981, with some necessary amendments to allow for the passage of time."-- P. 9.