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documents the downtown New York city art, performance, film, and literary landscape from 1975 to the present. In addition to thousands of published books and magazines, the
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in memory of his father, Haliburton Fales. It is especially strong in
English literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present, documenting developments in the novel. Other related collections held in Fales include the Berol Collection of
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The Fales
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offers public exhibits of materials from the
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University and college academic libraries in the United States
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of well over 15,000 books. The personal libraries of
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