{"id":10874,"date":"2011-03-03T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/withdrawn-from-circulation-3\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:58:07","slug":"withdrawn-from-circulation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/withdrawn-from-circulation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdrawn From Circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The very best books, or so it seems, are usually the ones that get withdrawn from circulation in local public libraries, while the trash remains on the shelves. The librarians&#39; bad judgement, however,&#0160;&#0160; redounds to my benefit as I am able to purchase fine books for fifty cents a pop. A while back, the literary luminaries at the Apache Junction Public Library saw fit to remove Linda Hamalian, <em>A Life of Kenneth <\/em><em>Rexroth<\/em> (Norton, 1991) from the shelves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why, I have no idea. (It wasn&#39;t a second copy.) But I snatched it up. A find to rejoice over. A&#0160;&#0160; beautifully produced first edition of over 400 pages, the Antiquarian Booksellers&#39; Association of America wanted $25 for it. I shall set it on the Beat shelf next to Kerouac&#39;s <em>Dharma Bums<\/em> wherein Rexroth figures as Reinhold Cacoethes. I hope the two volumes refrain from breaking each other&#39;s spines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Moral: Always search diligently through biblic crap piles, remainder bins and the like. It is amazing what treasure lies among the trash.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very best books, or so it seems, are usually the ones that get withdrawn from circulation in local public libraries, while the trash remains on the shelves. The librarians&#39; bad judgement, however,&#0160;&#0160; redounds to my benefit as I am able to purchase fine books for fifty cents a pop. A while back, the literary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/withdrawn-from-circulation-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Withdrawn From Circulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-kerouac-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}