The Bibliophile Mailing List is an electronic mailing list for sellers and collectors of rare, out-of-print and scarce books. Booksellers, librarians, students, scholars, and book lovers, share news and discussions on all manner of topics of interest to bibliophiles, as well as posting books wanted and books for sale listings.
The Bibliophile Mailing List was started in 1994 by Michael Medlin at the Claremont Colleges. By early 1995 the Iris.Clar...
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The Bibliophile Mailing List is an electronic mailing list for sellers and collectors of rare, out-of-print and scarce books. Booksellers, librarians, students, scholars, and book lovers, share news and discussions on all manner of topics of interest to bibliophiles, as well as posting books wanted and books for sale listings.
The Bibliophile Mailing List was started in 1994 by Michael Medlin at the Claremont Colleges. By early 1995 the Iris.Claremont.Edu server hosting the list could no longer handle the bandwidth. The list membership had grown to over 550, and with an average of 15 to 20 posts per day, the volume of email was large. In February 1995 the list was taken over by Joe McDonald of SmartDOCS.com in the Santa Clarita Valley of Southern California. At about the same time its management became the responsibility of Shoshana Edwards.
In the summer of 1997 Lynn DeWeese-Parkinson took over the list adding a bit of whimsy by changing the title from “List Owner” to “Grand Poohbah”...
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