Library Excavations #6: Notice to the Trade

Library Excavations is a project and publication series that highlights and activates physical materials found in public libraries. Public Collectors prefers direct experiences of physical media over the digital. Library Excavations encourages intensive browsing of paper and print resources, particularly those that are under-utilized, or at risk of being withdrawn and discarded. 

Library Excavations #6 excerpt from back cover:

"I learned about the magazine Playthings while working on Library Excavations #3...Playthings is a long-running trade magazine for toy manufacturing and retail industry. It covers sales trends, market findings, and other matters of importance to toy makers and seller. Playthings also regularly includes notices to trade the trade that highlight the darker legal corners of manufacturing fun and games. This issues reprints a variety of these paid notices, spanning the years 1977 through 1985..." - Marc Fischer

About the Publisher
Public Collectors was founded in 2007 by Marc Fischer, upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

Author
Marc Fischer

Publisher
Public Collectors

Publication Date
2017

Binding
Softcover, staple-bound, offset three-colour risograph

Size
5.5 x 8.5 inches
32 pages
Edition of 532

Language
English