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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hal Hall forwarded me this for our Reading Room staff, but I’m sending it to all of you guys as well, just in case there’s someone with a shopping list who
decides to make trip to the various SF libraries.</span><br clear="all">
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<h2>Rare Science Fiction Lit Missing From Philadelphia Area<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p>The following books, among others, have been recorded as stolen in August 2012 from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection of the Temple University Libraries (Philadelphia, Pa.):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Asimov, Isaac. Currents of Space. 1952. First edition.<br>
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. 1951. First, with d.j.<br>
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation and Empire. 1952. First, with d.j.<br>
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago, McClurg, 1914. 1st.<br>
Dick, Philip. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968. First, d.j.<br>
Lovecraft, H. P. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Arkham House, 1943. d.j.<br>
Lovecraft, H. P. Notes and Commonplace Book… 1938.<br>
Lovecraft, H. P. The Outsider and Others. Arkham House, 1939.<br>
Lovecraft, H. P. The Shunned House. Recluse Press, 1928.<br>
Verne, Jules. 7 Hetzel editions:<br>
Claudius Bombarnac … [1892?]<br>
L’ile Mysterieuse .. [1875?]<br>
Mathias Sandorf. 1885.<br>
Mirifiques Aventures de Maitre Antifer. [1894]<br>
Robur-le-Conquerant.. [1886]<br>
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours. [1890?]<br>
Une Ville Flottante …. 1872.<br>
If you have any information on these volumes and selected other science fiction or fantasy titles which may have indications of Temple ownership please contact either Thomas M. Whitehead, Rare Books & Literary Manuscripts, at
<a href="mailto:whitetm@temple.edu">whitetm@temple.edu</a>, or Margery Sly, Director of Special Collections, at
<a href="mailto:msly@temple.edu">msly@temple.edu</a>. 215-204-8230 and 215-204-1455 respectively.<o:p></o:p></p>
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