Another good day's cataloguing

 Had an excellent morning's work cataloguing up at the Athenaeum - another yellowback, this time an edition of Ishmael by Mary Braddon

and proof - in the form a triple decker where each volume came from a separate source - that the Athenaeum was buying books from a second hand book importer.

Incidentally, while a lot of the later books were bought new - or at least appear to have been bought new, they were still buying books second hand well into the 1950s

perhaps most dramatically in the case of the 1936 copy of Sheba Lane, which appears first to have been lent out by the Blue Feather library in St Kilda and then by the newsagent in Yackandandah - newsagents often operated small circulating libraries...