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What are we looking for in 2005?
John A. Stovall wrote: Having looked at what treasures 2004 had, what items are looking for in 2005 and is anyone branching out to new niches. snip Have decided to expand my collection about the Vietnam War focusing on POW materials. I have started with a list from Ed Moise. Mr. Moise has an extensive bibliography for the Vietnam Conflict. If you are interested, go to http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/...liography.html Art Layton Stamford, CT |
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"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
... Having looked at what treasures 2004 had, what items are looking for in 2005 and is anyone branching out to new niches. I should have mentioned that I picked up two signed firsts by Dorothy Day--*Loaves and Fishes* and *Therese*--to add to my signed first of *From Union Square to Rome*. Now all I need is a signed copy of *The Long Loneliness* and any copy of her first book, the autobiographical novel *The Eleventh Virgin*. (Which reminds me of my biggest miss of all time: about 6 years ago a very beaten-up copy of *The Eleventh Virgin* appeared on eBay. I didn't care for the condition and didn't realize the book's extreme rarity (Day destroyed all the copies she could find), so I let it pass by--for c. $50! The only other copy for sale I've seen since was priced in the low five figures!) I'm still hunting my grail quest of H. Beam Pipers', "A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks," McElhattan, Pa., Henry W. Shoemaker and H. Beam Piper, Altoona, PA: Times Tribune Co., 1927, 50 pages" I may start building a collection around the works Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and expand my small Merton collection to include some signed pieces. My Legion collections is suffering due to the terrible Dollar to Euro rate. I'm may try to get to Corse in April thought for a Camerone and see what I can turn up in Marseille. I turned up an early English translation of Teilhard not too long ago and sent it on to a friend who said he was interested in starting such a collection. I remember in the early 1980s, when I first started collecting, Teilhard was everywhere. But the supply seems to have dried up in the last two decades (although I'm sure you can find them online). John, are you buying French or English editions? Henri Cardinal de Lubac also wrote a couple of (maybe three?) books on his fellow French Jesuit--you should look for those as well. Good luck with Merton: I'd be surprised if you can find a signed, non-limited edition piece for less than four figures. The one "signed" piece I'd thought I had turned out to be a secretarial signature (suspected by me, confirmed by Paul Pearson, director of the Merton Center at Bellarmine University, and by Merton's former secretary, Br. Patrick Hart). I did recently donate a hard-to-find anonymous Merton piece to the Merton Center: A Monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani [i.e., Thomas Merton], *The Spirit of Simplicity: Characteristic of the Cistercian Order* (1948). William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com (new posting on the most interesting item I've seen on eBay in a while) |
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