David Anton Randall, 1905-1975

David A. Randall (1905-1975) had a remarkable career as a book dealer before embarking on a second and equally remarkable career as a rare book librarian. Keller describes those careers in this book and provides a generous sampling of Randall's writing on rare books, book collecting, and bibliography. The author includes a chronological list of his published work, a list of catalogs Randall issued as a rare book dealer, and a list of catalogs of the excellent exhibits he sponsored as head of the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Randall's son Ronald, who has followed in his father's footsteps as a rare book dealer, introduces the book with a warm rememberance of his father, and there is a frontispiece portrait of Randall and an index.

Dean H. Keller (BA, MLS, Kent State University) is Associate Dean of Libraries and Professor of Library Administration at Kent State University, where he has held several positions, including Head of Humanities Division and Curator of Special Collections, since 1958. He has held a Lilly Fellowship in Rare Book Librarianship at Indiana University and was exchange librarian at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a member of several library and bibliographical organizations and has been editor of The Serif, book review editor for the Bulletin of Bibliography, and on the editorial boards of Credences and Steinbeck Quarterly. His articles and reviews have appeared in professional journals, and among his books are An Index to the Colophon (Scarecrow, 1968), A Fool's Errand (Scarecrow, 1969), and An Index to Plays in Periodicals (Scarecrow, 1971).