Forum: Books
May 1st 08, 03:40 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Jurassic Park - Crichton
Francis,
A minor correction.... first printings by Knopf are stated firsts
only . No letters. No number run.
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Forum: Books
February 1st 08, 08:06 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,291
flat signed
http://www.bookthink.com/0053/53mil.htm
"Once anyone is educated, they all agree that FlatSigned is the best!
"
What percentage of people only want "flatsigned" books and would turn
up their nose...
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Forum: Books
December 30th 07, 04:50 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Vanguard Press in 1935
I'm not sure either about Vanguard. My wife collects Joyce Carol
Oates and many of her novels were printed by them (including "Them"
which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1970).
Most of...
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Forum: Books
December 30th 07, 04:09 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,632
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Forum: Books
December 26th 07, 10:21 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 4
Views: 723
Vanguard Press in 1935
Does anyone have any suggestions for finding out the size of a run for
an unsuccessful book? I have a book that they printed in 1935 (Hedwig
by Vance Randolph) and am curious about how many copies...
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Forum: Books
December 21st 07, 01:13 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 6
Views: 524
Stick a fork in it
On Dec 20, 5:47 pm, RF wrote:
Don't you have to spam this NG with for of your auction ads?
No. Never have and never will.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)
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Forum: Books
December 20th 07, 10:33 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 6
Views: 524
Stick a fork in it
On Dec 19, 9:49 am, RF wrote:
On Dec 19, 2:52 am, RS wrote:
Where do you get this "we" ****?
I've been posting to this group for 10...
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Forum: Books
December 20th 07, 10:20 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,565
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Forum: Books
December 4th 07, 02:13 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 7
Views: 637
Is it worth it?
a
first edition of Richard Francis Burton's translation of the poems of Catullus,
in vellum boards and published posthumously (1894).
Yep, Catullus had definitely passed away by...
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Forum: Books
June 13th 07, 02:56 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Replies: 3
Views: 456
The week's finds
Our auctioneer, a bookseller with fifty years of experience in the
book
business, performed a quick assessment of the book, saw that it was
published by Random House, and that the number line...
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