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Is there a list of our friend Flatsigned's other ID's?
"Brian Thomas" wrote in message ...
I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of Flatsigned's alternate bidding ID's. I have noticed a couple and just stumbled upon Buffett72. Several negative feedbacks make note of it, and I believe Three Dog Books in their claim. Did you see that one of Buffett72's negs is retaliatory and Fl@tsigned's response is: "SOLD EX-LIBRARY BOOK AS A FIRST PRINTING WITHOUT SAYING IT WAS AN EX-LIBRARY." (1) The description doesn't mention anything about printing. (2) When I read about a bound volume of science journals, I can't help but assume it's ex-lib., unless it is a reprint. Any science collectors here? What do you think about the item in question: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3518752568 A British dealer has a copy of it, bound with the preceding even more important volume, on abe for $2700. The highlighted articles are definitely hot right now. http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1996/...ue_960415.html I've also seen it argued that offprints, which are in effect the first separate publication of articles first published in scientific journals, are the real goal of modern science collectors: http://www.normanpublishing.com/arch..._library.shtml Any thoughts? William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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hollowayd wrote: (William M. Klimon) wrote in message . com... "Brian Thomas" wrote in message ... I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of Flatsigned's alternate bidding ID's. I have noticed a couple and just stumbled upon Buffett72. Several negative feedbacks make note of it, and I believe Three Dog Books in their claim. SNIPPAGE http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3518752568 A British dealer has a copy of it, bound with the preceding even more important volume, on abe for $2700. The highlighted articles are definitely hot right now. http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1996/...ue_960415.html I've also seen it argued that offprints, which are in effect the first separate publication of articles first published in scientific journals, are the real goal of modern science collectors: http://www.normanpublishing.com/arch..._library.shtml Any thoughts? William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com I know that literary off-prints were once hot items, and are now hard to sell. Novelist Walker Percy's scarce offprint SYMBOL AS NEED is his first published work and used to bring much more than THE MOVIEGOER. I think that perhaps offprints are the 'uncorrected proofs' of 20th century science. Higher prices, but fewer buyers. Most scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century did first appear as journal articles....most collectors would rather have a 'separate publiction' than an issue of a journal. On the other hand, if you are adding to a collection of GREAT BOOKS a 'science wing' so to speak you might go with the first book publication of these theories because that is what you are familiar with. It is also true that offprints are more likely to be signed than are the journal articles. Unfortunately, many authors follow the custom of simply writing "with the author's compliments". Now, how about association copy's which consist of an offprint with the recipient's rubber stamp or the like. My university library's first 50 years or so of the Journal of American Folklore has the rubber stamp of Franz Boas, arguably the founder of American Anthropology. In my personal collection are a number reprints with the stamp of A.L. Kroeber, arguably Boas' most distinguished (as opposed to well known) student and, as well, the father of Ursula LeGuin. Matthew Hill |
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Unfortunately, many authors follow the custom of
simply writing "with the author's compliments". BRBR Wouldn't it be interesting to sell a non-signed first to this Flatsigned guy, one that had a distinguishing characteristic that wasn't obvious, and see if it turns up later being sold by hiim with a signature? If it happened, would that be enough to get hiim convicted of fraud? "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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