Copyright Acknowledgment

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to
reprint from "Speech to Scholars," by Archibald MacLeish
, Saturday Review of Literature, 16
( June 12, 1937), 12. Reprinted by permission of
Houghton Mifflin Company.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Geller Evelyn.

Forbidden books in American public libraries, 1876-
1939.

(Contributions in librarianship and information
science, ISSN 0084-9243; no. 46)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Public libraries-- United States--Censorship--
History. 2. Censorship--United States--History.
3. Library science--United States--History. 4. Books
and reading--United States--History. 5. Freedom of
information--United States--History. I. Title.

II. Series.

Z711.4.G44 1984 025.2′1874′0973 83-12566

ISBN 0-313-23808-1 (lib. bdg.)

Copyright © 1984 by Evelyn Geller

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-12566
ISBN: 0-313-23808-1
ISSN: 0084-9243

First published in 1984

Greenwood Press
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