Dear Colleagues
Swansea Library Service is looking for a new home for its old fiction collection. The collection is no longer used as a resource for public lending and many of the items are available in other formats and/or could be obtained through other channels if required.
The fiction collection was intended historically as a reserve collection to provide lending copies of books by frequently requested authors. It includes a wide selection of books by popular and classic authors dating from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries.
Most titles have been rebound in blue library bindings and many items show deterioration through age and use. The collection contains items mainly published in the early 20th century and includes a range of popular authors and lesser known writers. The collection is boxed in a secure and dry environment in Gorseinon Library basement. There is no catalogue/list/inventory.
A sample of the collection was made and the list below will give an idea of the authors/titles and potential resale value.
We would like to hear from any organisations who would like to take on management of the collection where it could enhance research or support further study and not sell it on for profit.
The transportation of the collection would be the responsibility of any interested parties.
If you would like to discuss this further or are interested in taking on ownership of this collection please contact me [log in to unmask] tel 01792 636329 before 31st July.
Please share details about this opportunity to other colleagues and institutions where appropriate.
Books in the sample collection date from the 1870s to the 1950s, with the majority dating from 1910s, and 1920s.
Quick summary of authors of 3 or more books in the sample collection.
Candler, Edmund 3 vols [novelist of British India 1900s-1910s]
Cannan, Gilbert 5 vols [novelist 1910s 20s]
Carey, Rosa Nouchette 20 vols [popular writer of Victorian domestic romances]
Dell, Ethel M 9 vols [popular romance novels from 1910s-30s]
Dickens, Charles 5 vols
Dumas, Alexandre 16 vols [Famous French writer]
Gorky, Maxim 9 vols [Famous Russian writer]
Goodchild, George 3 vols [Thriller/Crime writer 1930s onwards]
Lyall, Edna 7 vols [writer of popular Victorian romance and serious novels]
Lucas, E.V 3 Vols [Comic writer 1890s-30s]
Mackensie, Compton 19 Vols [popular novelist 1910s – 1940s]
Mckenna, Stephen 9 vols [novelist upper class life]
Marryat, Captain 3 books [early 19th Century sea stories]
Marsh, Richard 3 books [thrillers/horror 1890s and 1910s]
Marshall, Archibald 4 books [Novelist 1890s-30s]
Marshall, Emma [5 books] [Victorian children's books]
Masefield, John [13 books] [Poet laureate and novelist 1920-30s]
Oliphant, Mrs 3 vols [Victorian novelist and short story writer]
Oman, Carola 4 vols [Historical novelist 1920s 30s]
Onions, Oliver 5 vols [novelist 1910s 1920s 1930s]
Oppenheim, E Phillips 4 Vols [Novelist - thrillers 1890s - 30s]
Stacpoole, H. De Vere 10 vols [popular novelist 1910s 1920s]
Steel, Flora Annie 3 vols [Novelist of British India 1890s-1920s]
Wynne, May 3 Vols [children's books 1920s 30s]
Yates, Dornford 10 vols [Novelist - 1920s/30s comedy/thrillers]
Kind regards
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