Pullman, The Golden Compass 1st American
 

For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American
edition of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996),
fine in fine condition. I think the most important thing in
book collecting (outside of gaining the requisite knowledge
of books) is hunting every day. And fortunately for me,
Connecticut is the Happy Hunting Grounds. With all the
Goodwill stores, Savers, library book sales, second hand
stores, and tag sales, there is always somewhere to look all
the time.

--
Francis A. Miniter

In dem Lande der Pygmäen
gibt es keine Uniformen,
weder Abzeichen, noch irgend welche Normen,
Und Soldaten sind dort nicht zu sehen.

Siegfried von Vegesack, "Es gibt keine Uniformen"
from In dem Lande der Pygmäen

Pullman, The Golden Compass 1st American
 

On Aug 16, 7:13*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote:
For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American
edition of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996),
fine in fine condition.


Oh, congratulations! It's a wonderful trilogy, I think, certainly as
well suited for adults as for YA readers.

Pullman, The Golden Compass 1st American
 

J wrote:
On Aug 16, 7:13�pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote:
For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American
edition of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996),
fine in fine condition.


Oh, congratulations! It's a wonderful trilogy, I think, certainly as
well suited for adults as for YA readers.


I can't remember who it was who said that a great children's
novel is really intended for adults.

--
Francis A. Miniter

In dem Lande der Pygmäen
gibt es keine Uniformen,
weder Abzeichen, noch irgend welche Normen,
Und Soldaten sind dort nicht zu sehen.

Siegfried von Vegesack, "Es gibt keine Uniformen"
from In dem Lande der Pygmäen

Pullman, The Golden Compass 1st American
 

Francis A. Miniter wrote:
For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American edition of
Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996), fine in fine
condition. I think the most important thing in book collecting (outside
of gaining the requisite knowledge of books) is hunting every day. And
fortunately for me, Connecticut is the Happy Hunting Grounds. With all
the Goodwill stores, Savers, library book sales, second hand stores, and
tag sales, there is always somewhere to look all the time.

Kudos to you, both on the book and on hunting every day. I have
been rather lax this year, because I am kind-of preoccupied with
moving--a large part of which is building and finding shelves for
books and sorting the books that need to be spliced into the books
that are currently shelved. EEEK!

--
Jean B.

Thanks you for the post.