1timspalding
It looks to me that the Huntington Library in California has London's library. Anyone know anything about it?
3JBD1
Oh, actually it looks like they're pretty well cataloged, and should be able to be MARC-imported ...
4timspalding
That would be nifty… I rather adore London. But I'm not sure I can catalog 5,000 or 15,000 items…
6benjclark
Hmmm, I live pretty close to Jack London's place ... and ... Tools of my Trade is in our library system ... I wonder if the MARC downloader at the Huntington is better in 2021 than it was in 2014...
7JBD1
>6 benjclark: - Well they're up to 1518 records seven years later but their MARC downloader still seems to be broken (I just get an empty file every time).
9benjclark
Tools of my Trade arrived. The author says London's library was 15,000 volumes! This is a look at the annotated volumes in the Huntington's large collection (and a few in private hands.) Hamilton describes around 400 volumes in his book (according to the dust jacket flap). David Mike Hamilton is a former curator at the Huntington, so I imagine it is *very* thorough. As an exemplar of the genre, it's really engaging and well organized.