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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The rare books were kept in the Central Library until November 2002 when they were transferred on deposit loan to the National Library of Scotland.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Books were rare, importation was opposed by the authorities, who believed them to be instruments of sedition.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Such rare birds of prey recorded in the International and Russian Red Books as sea eagle and osprey hunt and make nests at the south shore of the Gulf of Finland.
Both began collecting rare books from their youth and both turned their collections into a library which allowed the heritage of the past to be preserved for future generations.
Books were rare, and the most important histories preserved orally.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Hunting down rare books in libraries and used bookstores has given us a passion to revive the best of our finds for all to read.
This is one of the rare x rated books that you can keep on your coffee table comfortably while still knowing that the images will keep you in fantasy bliss for a long time to come.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Using rare books as primary reference material is possible with the use of a scanner and a web-site.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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This is one of those rare great books that captures the strength of the human spirit and trumpets the quiet dignity of true heroism.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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This is one of the rare popular science books that presents a new theory in lay terms while also postulating original ideas worthy of scholarly debate.
Unfortunately it is rare to find aromatherapy books whose claims are substantiated by scientific study and stand alone - outside the realm of modern natural medicine.
Good text books and references in structural geology are rare or not within the reach of an ordinary university student.
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