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yet, amazingly, he always knew the precise locaticn of his stock. Davies was involved In pxttLng together major co1lectia of ks, periodicals aid aicrofthe, including large iuii,ers of aicrofi]me of Hebrew inaø.iscripta existing aily in libraries in the USSR. All during his life, he renamed attacbed to the Soviet Uhiai as the birthplace of his aistora ard, in a samathat ranantic way, as the hiz of ,that he believed to be the eirce of man)dM's saving itself fran destructiai. thatever experiences, good or bad, that those who met Raynrfd Arthur Davies may of bile, he was the kird of unforgettable tharacter, larger-than-life, to trderstood how to ve pecple, and1 toget things dose. Saris librarians may not )ci that he was also a writer, publishing five books during the 1940's, anl ose blblij of Jewish Canadians 1111956. At his death, Davies left a stock of sae 5000 boxes of largely unsorted material, jicet of whith has been disposed of by his sos (author of tie lines). The leftover hooks aid other material is being offered os a selected basis by ert Davies, who can be reathed at 4920 ilevard de )Iaiscerisuve West, Suite 206, Weslnt, QC Canada H3Z 3N1. Tele1iose (514) 488-9531. - reseinizq books are meetly issian aid Ivlish pre-1917. Enquiries are welocais. A film an Rayerni Arthur Davies life is In progress and any inforinatios, ocemients aid so forth woold be weltxaeed by his sos. ert Davies Alexander Tisofejeff - Instead of an Cbituary by Wojciech Zalewski Alexander Timefejeff a book dealer associated with sev, residing in Pose died an Octeber 2, 1985. Weat follows is a trarislatios frau issian of an aieLpt fran a letter dated 25.9.1984 he wrote to the undersigned: 'That pertaixis to book activities (Jcnithnoe delo), is this: Already in 193 Os I was representing the iepaper Z )DINU in Sweden. This was a newspaper of RIS. Iiimmdiately after the war, in 1946, I joined sev, the publishing hase aid the journal. I was its representative in Sweden, aid I have disseninated air publicatioss. Since then, I never abanaied this rk, altha4i for a period of time in 19508 aid l960e I was less active. In 1969 1Iokathev, an antiquarian book dealer, died in Rare. I bcuht the major part of his Russian library and sent it to Possev. This began my activity as an antiquarian book dealer in 1970 (until then I was selling cnly Possev publicaticuis). I turned fully Into the antiquarian activities in 1972. At that time an antiquarian departhent was formed at P058ev. I studied bit not mxtL. above all, I have learned fran mistakes. I was selling rare books Inexpensively. I did not understand Gradually I began to wderstand. Gradually I began to imagine how the university libraries are worldng; differently in various intries. Gradually I understood with ithan anu book dealers aie can deal, and frau whan a shaild keep a In air catalogs I try to list old books. Since we have many Slavic institotee anrmg our clients, we axe listing books under a). new books and b). Soviet hocks in ilology. In general we have taided towaz1 ilology. In every catalog there is tilology. Often I am taking ks cut isigreant and I am listing then In sty catalog. Indeed quite often. Aid so Slavists and 49
professors are sellin their books through us. I am 1ookii for books everywhere: in Flnlaid, Sweden, IDersiark, Fg1aid, \irkey, Iran, Marocco, Frai, Federal Republic of Germany, JustrLa, Italy, Switzerlard - in all these ccinitries I porthazed books several tii or frequently, even In Brazil. In catalog we are trying to give titles whith we did not offer earlier. In cata].og there are rare books, In catalog there is also a part of "inexpensive" books. Catalogs are not prepared very professimally fros the library point of viev, because many clients - private persaia - would not uiderstard. Aid it baens anay that they do not uiderstard. I try always to Iidicath haestly the defective ies. it thousans of books pass thrrufl my hanis every year aid it is not always possible to reveal a or another defect. ir primary antiquarian war1se is In Fraokfurt. It itaixis abcut 15,000 volmma. Besi it, there are mraller warises 1,500 - 2,000 bo In Paris, Stoc)tholm, aid Ikse. Vat, pozhalui ivse... Tcday I ma going with my wife to Switzerlaid, Germany, aid ftar. Evexytisre in .sarth of books (Vse pa keizhnya delam): to boy, to seid, aid to prs a imai catalog In Paris. SIQAL 'IPAVEL AD Dethanigs Trip Ctiesrvatimm - Harold H. Leith In May 1985 I had the pleasure of visiting fourteen of Illinois' lange exthaxqe partner. in )tuc,, Leningrad aid Warsaw. The libraries visited are: Lenin Library University Library Stats Central Theater Library State Public Scientific-'rethnicml Library DU Library Stats lic Historical Library brsign Literathr. Library atra1 Scientific Pgrioultural Library Sa1tykev-thedrIn State Public Library Leningrad University Library 3icadiy of Sciences Library Warsaw: Warsaw University Library Naticnal Library Pulish Acadouy of Scieie (0PP) )' trip was the first ia made by an Illinois librarian to the major exthaiqe partners since the early 19705 aid was, I feel, very safu1 in firming up our large exthanges aid laying the fouidati for expaiding several of then. Rather than going Into the details of my visit to eath library, I will rake sara ervatic*is that might be of general interest to other Amarican libraries with exthangs partners in the Soviet Unicn ani POlaid. 50
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