Also since it is about fashion. Game history could make a great topic for a library collection.
For a library collection i think these books have a place.
Awful library books. They are usually home and garden topics. Awful library books caught on quickly. Hoarding is not collection development.
The actual quality varies from book to book. The book itself is less than 200 pages plus a few more with diagrams for paper airplanes and kite construction. A can of cream of something soup some kind of meat or tuna fish potato chips for crunch.
Casserole cook book better homes and gardens 1972 you all know i can t resist a good casserole cookbook. The site s twitter account now has eleven. See more ideas about library books books bizarre books.
If you are a casserole hot dish fan than you know that certain ingredients appear all the time. The book itself is a basic fashion planning guide. Awful library books featuring odd things found at the library.
Woman style your personal guide to timeless fashion feldon 1979 have some womanstyle circa 1979. This particular book last checked out just five years ago in 2015 surprisingly enough. We have another nice cookbook with pictures that do nothing to entice the reader to eat said casseroles.
They are recognizable and the titles are extremely helpful in describing the book. This book barely even scratches the surface in some topics and in others there is not enough. I m currently weeding my public library s adult fiction collection.
It s timeless assuming time stops in 1985. Rocket power and space flight stine 1957 the flyleaf of this book starts out by saying that the book was the result of thousands of letters that the author received. The cookbooks from the 60s and 70s are something to behold.
Soft focus seems to be the photographer s favorite look for some pictures. These so called awful library books are the ones that make a library an inspiring and exciting place rather than a poor cousin to wikipedia. The photography is something else.
April 15 2010 at 10 24 am benita i ve worked as a student journalist and i ll echo what you ve said about vocabulary spelling and rigor in writing. This appears to be a first edition from 1976 and the address stamped in the front of the book is from three library locations ago. These books have been around forever.
1993 here s a good example of a book that every public library. Oct 25 2013 these books are just awful. It has all the info on fabrics style wardrobe planning etc.
It is not in depth and frankly not that interesting.
