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of the pharmaceutical Lillys. When Lilly decided to give his collection to
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auction. In 1931 the depression found him unemployed and he took up independent book scouting to support himself. He had doubts about the decision, his wife was pregnant and "the only thing to do, it seemed, was to return to the
Pennsylvania coal mines." Mrs Randall, however, thought otherwise,
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copy of the
Gutenberg Bible. Together, Randall and Carter published catalogues that developed new markets and appealed to a younger generation of collectors. Subject included modern first editions, mysteries, musical firsts and familiar quotations.
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saying that he was hard enough to live with as it was and he would be "completely intolerable" if he wasn't doing a job he liked. He formed a relationship with
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from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in
English in 1928. He began to study law at Harvard but dropped out after one term after attending
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was published in 1952, "is still in print 63 years later – the best selling, longest running Books about Books title of all time."
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in 1946. He was a member of the committee charged with preparing the
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Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Exhibition, January–April 1975
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A Primer of Book Collecting. New revised and enlarged edition
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Lilly Library Publications Online. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
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the collections that Randall acquired for Indiana were the
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archive, the Bernardo Mendel Latin American library, the
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