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The Crown Jewel Of Your Collection by
BobFinnan.com
It may or may not be the most valuable or expensive book you own but
what do you consider the "Crown Jewel" of your collection?
--
RWF
http://BobFinnan.com
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Ever find interesting things in books? by
Matt J. McCullar
I was unloading some books at my local Half-Price Books store this afternoon
and the clerk was talking with another customer about things that other
readers have accidentally left behind in their books. I joked that they
should have an "Is This Yours?" display case of such items, but she said
that...
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Quest for the book detectives... by
my-wings
Someone wrote to me based on my website page about remainder marks and asked
if I'd ever seen a certain stamp before or had any information about it. He
says he's seen it in a number of apparently unrelated books from a variety
of publishers over the years, and had become curious as to its...
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A "literary scandals" collection? by
Jon Meyers
The recent stories about Kaavya Viswanathan's partially plagiarized, and
possibly ghost-written, novel, _How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and
Got a Life_ , coming so closely after the controversy surrounding James
Frey's _A Million Little Pieces_ , got me to wondering about the
possibilities for...
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Booked Solid by
Jon Meyers
Apparently some people buy so many books that they run out of places to
put them. Crazy, huh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200557.html
(with picture, and links to 3 related articles)
--Jon Meyers
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FA: Architectural Gardens of Italy by Arthur Holland Forbes by
Eric Hochman
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6550166832
This book is retailing at www.abe.com for $2200; I am offering a fine
copy at a significant discount from this.
I have been a seller on eBay for seven and a half years, have no
negative feedback, and offer a money back guarantee on...
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Collecting Whims Revisited by
Jerry Morris
It's been awhile since we last revisited a thread on Collecting Whims,
and almost three years since I first posted it:
http://www.tinyurl.com/5mr62
Collecting Whims, as defined in one of the previous posts, are
out-of-the-ordinary collecting interests, odd fancies, off-track
booking, or, simply,...
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January 1st 05 01:42 AM
by Eden R
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Artgallery Redux by
John Yamamoto-Wilson
Tom wrote:
Wasnt this one of the items complained about last time?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=35388023
All I get on that is "Invalid item", so perhaps it's been scratched already.
All stops out, though, to ensure the following also gets...
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rec.flame.michael adams by
Bob F.
Please use this thread to insult, berate or otherwise comment on our
resident lunatic, Michael Adams.
Comments suchs as: he's a big smelly poopypants should be avoided as should
any reference to the gigantic stick he has up his ass.
Furthermore, any reference to a subject he finds objectionable...
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Bizarre Books by
John Yamamoto-Wilson
This arises from Alfred Armstrong's "Frank Nimrod" posting, and is a repost
of a posting of mine from a couple of years ago, which led to quite a lively
and informative thread (http://tinyurl.com/nlwc). I don't know if Alfred saw
the thread the first time round, but I'd love to hear his - or...
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Should libraries compete with used bookdealers? by
Bill Palmer
The idea of libraries going on-line to compete with used bookdealers
troubles me a bit. Admittedly, my negative feelings arise from
self interest. After all, on more than one occasion I have bought
a book for a dollar or two at a local library store, paying, that
is, a price far lower than the...
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Query: The House Called Hadlows by Victoria Walker by
Graeme & Chris Williams
Sorry if this turns up a couple of times, the first time we tried posting
nothing showed up.
I wonder if anyone can help us? We have recently come across a signed first
edition of 'The House Called Hadlows' by Victoria Walker, and were all set
to offer it for sale through our usual channels, when...
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Doesn't anybody know how to pack a book? by
Jim
I bought five books in the last few weeks from alibris, and four of
them had to be sent back. One of them was not at all as described,
which is a separate problem, but the others were unacceptable on
arrival because they had not been packed properly.
Two large books were dropped into the cheapest...
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A few minor brags from a FOL sale.. by
my-wings
"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
...
At least here on the frontier, the FOL sales have not been corrupted.
For 10 dollars I walked out with 12 nice items.
Congratulations on your wonderful day!
I covet
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Am I a collector or not? by
Al Smith
I've got thousands of books. I buy what interests me, or what I
need in my researches, or what I believe will be useful as part of
my general reference library such as classic English novels or
translations of ancient Roman and Greek works or straight
reference works.
Sometimes I will buy a book...
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Easton Press sci-fi questions by
p sears
Hi! I have noticed several Easton Press Signed First Edition science
fiction books.
The particular one I got curious about is Solis by A. A. Anttanasio
There is an Easton Press signed first on Ebay at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3569037716&category=2232&rd=1
but, according...
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December 28th 03 03:28 PM
by P Sears
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Old Books by
Ken_Prospero
I am looking at acquiring a copy of Shakespeare's Third Folio.
The problem (as with most Folios) is imperfections. In this case, about 4%
of the leaves are facsimile, and about 6% come from another volume of the
Folio.
Most of the facsimile pages are in the prefatory material (and this...
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Shock Horror ! by
diane.walker
Someone just e-mailed me to let me know how much he enjoyed reading the book
he bought of me on ebay. I immediately informed him that books bought from
me are for collectors only, and should not be opened under any
circumstances.
This whole episode gave me a nasty turn. I'm just off to iron my...
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