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Old April 2nd 06, 07:20 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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[This article is part of a current
misc.writing thread. Since it
contains a great deal of material
germane to the topic of
rec.collecting.books, I decided
to make a courtesy repost over
here. --Bill]

Bill wrote:
Towse wrote:
Bill wrote:

As usual, Towse, your frantic desire
to maintain your perceived position
as the top misc.writing know-it-all
gets you in over your head fast.


Still upset that I said you didn't need to use addall.com to know that
Harper Perennials didn't exist in 1932?


You understand very clearly that I knew that.
After all, I was the first one to go on record as
pointing out a number of suspicious elements
in that off-topic ad. If you think the obvious
and rather subordinate point that Harper
Perennials did not exist in 1932 was such a
big deal, you should have pointed out that
obvious bagatelle of information right away.
Your harping on that one minor point no
doubt leads readers to suspect that is all
you do know about the matter.

What was far more germane to the suspicious
nature of the ad, in my view, is the fact that
neither the first edition paperback OR the
first edition hardcover cost anything close
to ten dollars when published. That is the
sort of key information readily available
for anyone knowing how to do a proper
Addall.com search, which is why I
recommended Addall. .

Towse, I doubt if you have ever owned a
paperback from the 1930's. If you had,
would not be harping on such an obvious
point as Harper Perennials not existing
then. A few publishers did publish
"quallity paperbacks" (to use the term
favored by the original poster) and
perhaps the most respected and
collected of those so doing was
Charles Boni, New York. One
highly sought gem of theirs is
"The Master of the Day of Judgment"
by Leo Perutz, first published, as I
seem to recall, on March 25, 1930.
The disturbing cover illustration by
Rockwell Kent depicts a man upside
down, in free-fall from a
cliff. The red and white endpapers
are quite astonishing. Apparently
also done by Kent, they show books
raining down from the sky in front of
a modern (1930's style) city.

While the 1930's Boni "quality"
(trade-sized, in other words)
paperbacks did not have a price
stamped on the cover, dealers
usually sold them for fifty
to seventy-five cents.

Also, I did point out that the only
edition of "1984." published in
1949 was the hardcover edition.
the Signet paperback -- highly
sought by collectors today for
its disturbingly realistic cover --
was not a "Signet classic,"

Further, since the term "instant
classic" was not employed in
1950, the literary world would have
considered it a bit presumptious
to dub a book -- even a great
book by George Orwell -- a
"classic" a few months after
publication, though no doubt
many reviewers said "1984" was
destined to become a classic.
No, the first paperback "1984"
(published July 1950) was
simply an ordinary Signet
twenty-five cent paperback,
in the same Signet numerical
series as books by Mickey
Spillane and Erskine Caldwell!
In fact, I seem to recall that "1984"
was Signet 798 while "God's Little
Acre" (by Caldwell) was Signet
581.

Yes, Towse, there is plainly a lot
that.the poster did not know and
that even YOU did not know.
Your annoying "group know-it-all"
[of misc.writing; ed.] side is
getting you so carried
off that you now shooting
from the hip and missing -- and
making a hopeless fool of
yourself! Sad.

[memo from the upstairs office]

You need a life, Bill.

--

Sal

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