In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:40:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dan(a)tobias.name writes:
So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened
to know of
only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole
Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel there
to check it.>>
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Items of this level of rarity fail our test that the item is publicly
accessible. We never really set where the bar should be, but we all seemed to
agree (at the time) that an item should be generally available in some way.
It's too onorous to require a random editor to have to verify something
against a single copy.
By the way, you would think that if something this rare were really worth
citing, that it would have already been published in a scholarly edition.
Your example is a bit eccentric, I wonder if you have an actual case in mind.
Will Johnson
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