Rare book hunt...
Well, I seem to have encountered a stone wall in trying to obtain a research item. The book is Studies in Mountain Village Life, written by Yanagita Kunio. Yanagita was, as has been elsewhere noted in this LiveJournal and in other places I frequent, the most well-known pioneer of the field of Japanese folklore studies. The book was originally published as Sanson seikatsu no kenkyū (山村生活の研究) in 1937, and was translated into English in 1954 and published by University of Kentucky Press, edited by George K. Brady. That is all the information on the book that I have.
I first tried to get an Interlibrary Loan for the book, but I received a message stating: "Unfortunately, no libraries are willing to lend Studies in Mountain Village Life. We tried for both print and microfilm editions without success."
Here is Amazon's page for the book. Note that it doesn't even have an ISBN. It is not available to order used.
Here are the holdings in nearby libraries. The one nearest me, University of Georgia, is 213 miles away. So that's probably not going to happen.
The book does not come up on Froogle either, and a generic Google search yields nothing either...except...
...JSTOR. This page on JSTOR appears on the search results on Google. I don't know if the file is a review of the book, or the text of the book itself. I'm pretty sure it's a review, because the file is only one page of a scholarly journal. But I have no way of accessing JSTOR in any case.
What am I to do? Does anyone know of any other resources for obtaining rare books? I'd like to own it, but I'd be content with merely borrowing a copy from a library, or downloading an electronic form of the text. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.
I first tried to get an Interlibrary Loan for the book, but I received a message stating: "Unfortunately, no libraries are willing to lend Studies in Mountain Village Life. We tried for both print and microfilm editions without success."
Here is Amazon's page for the book. Note that it doesn't even have an ISBN. It is not available to order used.
Here are the holdings in nearby libraries. The one nearest me, University of Georgia, is 213 miles away. So that's probably not going to happen.
The book does not come up on Froogle either, and a generic Google search yields nothing either...except...
...JSTOR. This page on JSTOR appears on the search results on Google. I don't know if the file is a review of the book, or the text of the book itself. I'm pretty sure it's a review, because the file is only one page of a scholarly journal. But I have no way of accessing JSTOR in any case.
What am I to do? Does anyone know of any other resources for obtaining rare books? I'd like to own it, but I'd be content with merely borrowing a copy from a library, or downloading an electronic form of the text. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.