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Old November 20th 03, 04:36 AM
William M. Klimon
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Two curiosities lately acquired:

(1) John Hildebrand, *Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family* (NY:
Knopf, 1995)

The dust jacket of which appears normal but, when removed from the book,
unfolds to a large (20" on each side) poster-like square that reveals a map
of the family farm in question and antique photographs of the patriarch and
matriarch. Quite a nice surprise.

(2) Jasper Fforde, *The Eyre Affair* (NY: Viking, 2001)

In this case, it is the particular copy that is of interest. This copy,
found in a local thrift, is marked up with labels, pen, and pencil, all
clearly indicating directions for a reader for some kind of audio book. All
36 chapters are allocated across "9 sides" and no text is marked
out--obviously an unabridged audio edition. My guess is that this was the
reader's copy for the Library of Congress's books for the blind program, or
something similar. Not valuable at all, I'm sure, but something I've never
seen before.


William M. Klimon
http://www.gateofbliss.com



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Old November 20th 03, 01:35 PM
Art Layton
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"William M. Klimon" wrote in message news:5GWub.10064$0K4.1068@lakeread04...
Two curiosities lately acquired:

(1) John Hildebrand, *Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family* (NY:
Knopf, 1995)

The dust jacket of which appears normal but, when removed from the book,
unfolds to a large (20" on each side) poster-like square that reveals a map
of the family farm in question and antique photographs of the patriarch and
matriarch. Quite a nice surprise.

(2) Jasper Fforde, *The Eyre Affair* (NY: Viking, 2001)

In this case, it is the particular copy that is of interest. This copy,
found in a local thrift, is marked up with labels, pen, and pencil, all
clearly indicating directions for a reader for some kind of audio book. All
36 chapters are allocated across "9 sides" and no text is marked
out--obviously an unabridged audio edition. My guess is that this was the
reader's copy for the Library of Congress's books for the blind program, or
something similar. Not valuable at all, I'm sure, but something I've never
seen before.


The Fforde book may be worth more than you think. He has a cult
following here in the US and his signed books command a premium on
eBay.

Art Layton
Stamford, CT
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Old November 20th 03, 06:09 PM
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"William M. Klimon" wrote in message news:5GWub.10064$0K4.1068@lakeread04...
Two curiosities lately acquired:

(1) John Hildebrand, *Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family* (NY:
Knopf, 1995)

The dust jacket of which appears normal but, when removed from the book,
unfolds to a large (20" on each side) poster-like square that reveals a map
of the family farm in question and antique photographs of the patriarch and
matriarch. Quite a nice surprise.

(2) Jasper Fforde, *The Eyre Affair* (NY: Viking, 2001)

In this case, it is the particular copy that is of interest. This copy,
found in a local thrift, is marked up with labels, pen, and pencil, all
clearly indicating directions for a reader for some kind of audio book. All
36 chapters are allocated across "9 sides" and no text is marked
out--obviously an unabridged audio edition. My guess is that this was the
reader's copy for the Library of Congress's books for the blind program, or
something similar. Not valuable at all, I'm sure, but something I've never
seen before.


William M. Klimon
http://www.gateofbliss.com



Thanks for posting these! I love 'trick dustjackets' I once had a
friend who collected them. He had a nice bookshelf full of books with
two dustjackets, dustjackets with cellophane windows so you could see
the covers of the books, etc. One of his favorites was a fairly
recent thriller where the publisher had attempted a 'snow globe'
effect by embedding pieces of confetti between two dustjackets... it
didn't really work the way they wanted it to, but it we both
appreciated the effort!

David


David Holloway, Bookseller.
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Old November 23rd 03, 07:59 AM
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There is one book I have always regretted not obtaining. Saw it in a
thrift shop. A well-worn hardcover non-descript modern fiction book.
But a mental patient had filled it up, using it as a diary during
their incarceration. Sort of a "one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
situation. After a few minutes reading the interesting commentary, I
decided not to buy the disgusting looking book, and have regretted it
ever since.

Peridote
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Old November 23rd 03, 03:32 PM
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"Peridote" wrote in message
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There is one book I have always regretted not obtaining. Saw it in a
thrift shop. A well-worn hardcover non-descript modern fiction book.
But a mental patient had filled it up, using it as a diary during
their incarceration. Sort of a "one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
situation. After a few minutes reading the interesting commentary, I
decided not to buy the disgusting looking book, and have regretted it
ever since.


A couple years ago a friend purchased a woman's diary from a sidewalk seller in
NYC. The woman was a spinster, age indeterminate, who lived with her mother,
circa 1930. She was a receptionist in an MDs office, a virgin, had had an affair
with the MD, a married man, and gotten pregnant; the MD performed an abortion
and fired her shortly thereafter. She commenced stalking the MD, which stalking
the diary chronicles. The thing is that she's seemingly oblivious to the fact
that she's stalking him; she invariably expresses surprise at how her path
crosses the MDs: the trajectory of her errands always forces her to walk past
his office, where she just happens to glance in his window; she goes to the
movies and ends up sitting directly behind the MD and his wife, a coincidence;
etc. In between stalking she cared for her mother, who suffered from "female
trouble." Not too much about the mother save an undercurrent of resentment and
hatred, and every penny spent on her mother's care meticulously entered and
totaled weekly and monthly. About half the book is full, margin to margin; then
nothing. Murder? Suicide? Creedmoor? Merely a new ledger? Dunno. If it's a novel
(or a hoax) it's a work of genius; as a diary, it's madness. Just the same, I
lust for it.


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Old November 30th 03, 03:15 AM
Courtney Love
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A well-worn hardcover non-descript modern fiction book.
But a mental patient had filled it up, using it as a diary during
their incarceration. Sort of a "one Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
situation. BRBR

I own a copy of Lewis Spence's "Encyclopaedia of Occultism" that has numerous
similar marginalia, particularly about how the writer used mental techniques
like those described in the books to freeze out the entities trying to possess
her.


"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor
citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when
single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."

--Benjamin Franklin
 




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