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An English professor at the University of North Carolina, Howard Mumford Jones founded the Bull's Head Bookshop in 1927 in his Murphey Hall office, planned as a campus shop for modern books, with comfortable chairs, where students could read and talk. It moved to the Campus Y, the library and in 1968 the Daniels Building.
Source: UNC A to Z: Bull's Head Bookshop
1892–1980 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Howard Mumford Jones writes about the Bull's Head Bookshop, the bookstore at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, in a piece detached from the March 1962 issue of Scholarly Books in America and published by the University of Chicago. Topics include the history of the shop and of college stores in Chapel Hill.
Address Howard Mumford Jones gave on 18 April 1952 at the dedication of the addition to the University of North Carolina Library, reprinted from College and Research Libraries of January 1953. Topics include academic libraries in Chapel Hill and in the United States generally, and the piece belongs to the record of the library's expansion.
The autobiography of Howard Mumford Jones, the American author and educator, published by the University of Wisconsin Press in Madison in 1979, xiii and 292 pages with a portrait plate. The account concerns twentieth century authors and educators, with material relating to the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Percy A. Beach's 1928 article on the Bull's Head Book Shop at the University of North Carolina, detached from The publishers' weekly of April 14, 1928. The shop ran at a profit under a member of the faculty, Professor Howard Mumford Jones, who gave up his office space in Murphy Hall for it. Topics include bookstores and college stores in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980.
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