"Brian Thomas" wrote in message ... I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of Flatsigned's alternate bidding ID's. I have noticed a couple and just stumbled upon Buffett72. Several negative feedbacks make note of it, and I...

In recent months, I've encountered an increasing number of Korean War books, both fiction and nonfiction, and even a Korean War book collector (although he admitted that his collection was quite small, a couple dozen books if memory serves). It strikes as a wide-open field--there is a reason it's...

"Xellaphite" xellaphiteAThotmailDOTcom wrote in message ... I have a copy of Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzal. It is a first edition that is signed by the author. It is unread and in mint contion (I bought a second hand copy to read which is a...

Just received for a pittance (£12.50) from a British dealer: *Agatha, or The Trials of a Catholic* by a Convert. Leeds: T.E. Bradley, 1852. A little apologetic novel, of a not-uncommon type, but apparently scarce in this instance. Dedicated to J.H. Newman. Not in BL, LC, OCLC, or RLIN. Not in...

Or, more specifically, how many authors have become eponyms for their books--or perhaps a genre of books? These come immediately to my mind: Bartlett's (Quotations) Webster's (Dictionary) Fowler's (Modern English Usage) Gray's (Anatomy) Black's (Law Dictionary)

Recently found a bunch of Stealth Press editions from c. 2001--mostly reprints of one- or two-decades-old thrillers. Very attractively produced, these copies appear not to have been read--I'm guessing a batch of review copies that never were reviewed. I take it Stealth flamed out not too long...

Interesting article on the remainder business--it's a lot like scouting but on a macro-scale: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/15/AR2006011501155.html William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com

A week ago, I was looking at my shelf where I saw four novels by Walker Percy novels and realized that I no longer had a copy of LOST IN THE COSMOS: THE LAST SELF-HELP BOOK (1983). I really enjoyed that--I read it when it was published--and thought to myself that I should get another copy of...

COLLECTING THE CONFESSIONS Selections from the William M. Klimon Collection of St. Augustine's Confessions The Jeanne M. Godschalx Gallery, Bush Art Center St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin October 9-20, 2006 "Collecting the Confessions" presents 20 interesting editions of St. Augustine's...

Is there a book that haunts you--and not in good way? A bothersome piece that pops up on your eBay searches and continually gets in your path in secondhand bookstores? Mine is the *Great Religions of Modern Man* a six-volume boxed set published by George Braziller in the early 1960s They must...

http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200409300815.asp William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com

I just discovered that Cornell has made all of its digital collections, including its version of the Making of American online text project and its Historical Monograph and Historical Math Book collections, available from one page: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cdl.html Happy reading.

wrote in message ... I hope you don't mind me pulling in a sort of sidebar here, but I've been interested in novels that use the tarot as a source for their plot, or characters, or even imagery. I've even written a ...

Maybe no longer: http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?articleid=CA327356 William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com

Two curiosities lately acquired: (1) John Hildebrand, *Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family* (NY: Knopf, 1995) The dust jacket of which appears normal but, when removed from the book, unfolds to a large (20" on each side) poster-like square that reveals a map of the family farm in question...

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For my wife, who is interested in such things, tonight I picked up a copy of Jeffrey Steingarten's *The Man Who Ate Everything and Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits* (Knopf, 1998). The jacket is entirely taken up with a hugely enlarged picture of a piece of bread,...

From John Pearson's *The Life of Ian Fleming* (NY, 1966), pp.71-72: " began with his friend Percy Muir, whom Fleming had met in the Kitzbuehel days. Muir was then a partner in Dulau's bookshop in Bond Street and Fleming, on vacation from the Tennerhof, had walked in to buy a book of D.H....

I've seen a couple of recent (from the 1980s and '90s) S&S (and its subsidiary imprints) that have a number line beginning with "2" and a statement of "FIRST EDITION". In other words, they look like Random House firsts. Since S&S seems not to have had a consistent practice, are...

Anyone have a Graham Greene bibliography? I have what I think is a Taiwanese pirate edition of Greene's THE TENTH MAN. Just interested in some more information on it. Thanks. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com