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Old September 19th 11, 01:51 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
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Default An Incredible Visit to Savers

They must have had a donation from someone who was cleaning
up after a person who really knew his books. And the person
cleaning up had to have known nothing of books. So . . .

1. H. P. Lovecraft (& divers hands), The Shuttered Room
and Other Pieces (Arkham House 1959), near fine condition
(slight aging of pages, small water stain on a few early
pages) in near fine dust jacket protected by mylar. Only
2500 copies printed.

That raised my antennae!

2 . Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, (Reynal & Hitchcock
1947) with not one but TWO of the highly scarce first issue
dust jackets in mylar, with $3.00 price on flaps and
"Advance critical acclaim" on rear cover of each.

3. Elizabeth George, The Evidence Exposed (Hodder &
Stoughton 1999) signed first printing, fine in fine dust
jacket in mylar.

Then a Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps (Dent 1964) illustrated
by Edward Ardizzone, with nice dust jacket in mylar, and
Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam 1961),
with price-clipped dust jacket, though I am not certain what
its lineage is yet (regular printing or book club, since it
differs significantly from a book club edition I already
have).

--
Francis A. Miniter

Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.
Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,
Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus I, lines 33 - 35
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Old September 19th 11, 03:01 PM posted to rec.collecting.books
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Default An Incredible Visit to Savers

On Sep 18, 8:51*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote:

1. * * *H. P. Lovecraft (& divers hands), The Shuttered *Room
and Other Pieces (Arkham House 1959), near fine condition
(slight aging of pages, small water stain on a few early
pages) in near fine dust jacket protected by mylar. *Only
2500 copies printed.



Wow! Quite rare--cheapest copy on bookfinder is $150, and it doesn't
have the dust jacket. (Add $100 for the jacket...) Arkham House always
printed small runs of their books.


3. * * *Elizabeth George, The Evidence Exposed (Hodder &
Stoughton 1999) signed first printing, fine in fine dust
jacket in mylar.



This is the original version of what was published in the U.S. as I,
RICHARD, her only short story collection to date. The later version
has more stories, but the British has the first incarnation of the
title story, which was rewritten (as "Exposed") for the American
edition.
 




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