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Little Blue Books?
On Nov 16, 4:29*am, Big Q wrote:
On Nov 11, 2:33*am, scotkamins wrote: In article , *RPN wrote: On Nov 3, 2:43*pm, scotkamins wrote: Folks, I recently discovered a series of numbered books (pamphlets really, about 64 pages each) called the Little Blue Books. These guys started around 1919 and there are around 2,000 titles (more, actually). I think I'd like to start a collection of these. Anybody know where I can buy a large lot of these cheap? Thanks, Scot Kamins For what it's worth, here's a bookseller who claims to specialize in them: http://www.biblio.com/bookstores/prestian.html RPN Thanks for the lead -- I'll check it out. - Scot Al Newgarden at THE AMERICAN DUST company knows a lot about these (knows a lot about all paperbacks) he thinks that they actually indicated firsts by dating the title page in the usual manner... I once had a large hardcover from this publisher (book of fairy tales) by Haldemann's wife or mother. *This publisher would be a great subject for a biography! * *Good luck with your collection, I haven't seen the offered by the boxful recently, but used to spot them at flea markets pretty regularly. *One significant first book by an African- American author was published in the series. Good luck, David Thanks for the leads, David. The flea market idea is a GREAT one -- just the sort of place that little curiois like these would be. |
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Little Blue Books?
Not so long ago, scotkamins wrote:
In article , Some Guy wrote: Well, there was a bookstore in SD that had a big box of them for about 50 cents each. I've got maybe 15 to 20 of what I consider the more interesting ones. Collecting them all might be difficult, as they were often not printed on high-quality paper. Have you looked on AddAll? Thanks, Some. I'll check it out. Do you know if there's a collector's website, group, or e-mail discussion group for these puppies? I found one great resource -- http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxhjulius.html -- that purportedly lists every title. Very interesting. I got some of these from my great-aunt years ago and that website has each listed -- strange that one each one I have only lists a number: "110" or "752" and the website has two or three titles for that number (110a, 110b, 100c, etc) so I guess you get no uniqueness that way. The ones I have are either decent little histories, anecdotes, jokes and a couple with magic tricks. Keep me posted if you get a website going. I love their little globe logo: "A University in Print" Best thing about them: they won't take up much space -- Joe Morris Atlanta history forums http://atlhistory.com |
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Little Blue Books?
Scot Kamins wrote:
On Nov 16, 4:29 am, Big Q wrote: On Nov 11, 2:33 am, scotkamins wrote: In article , RPN wrote: On Nov 3, 2:43 pm, scotkamins wrote: Folks, I recently discovered a series of numbered books (pamphlets really, about 64 pages each) called the Little Blue Books. These guys started around 1919 and there are around 2,000 titles (more, actually). I think I'd like to start a collection of these. Anybody know where I can buy a large lot of these cheap? Thanks, Scot Kamins For what it's worth, here's a bookseller who claims to specialize in them: http://www.biblio.com/bookstores/prestian.html RPN Thanks for the lead -- I'll check it out. - Scot Al Newgarden at THE AMERICAN DUST company knows a lot about these (knows a lot about all paperbacks) he thinks that they actually indicated firsts by dating the title page in the usual manner... I once had a large hardcover from this publisher (book of fairy tales) by Haldemann's wife or mother. This publisher would be a great subject for a biography! Good luck with your collection, I haven't seen the offered by the boxful recently, but used to spot them at flea markets pretty regularly. One significant first book by an African- American author was published in the series. Good luck, David Thanks for the leads, David. The flea market idea is a GREAT one -- just the sort of place that little curiois like these would be. I've got a bunch of these I have no interest in keeping. If you want them, let me know. |
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Little Blue Books?
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Some Guy wrote: I've got a bunch of these I have no interest in keeping. If you want them, let me know. I'm interested. Please contact me at -- and thanks! |
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Little Blue Books?
scotkamins wrote:
In article , Some Guy wrote: I've got a bunch of these I have no interest in keeping. If you want them, let me know. I'm interested. Please contact me at -- and thanks! You have mail. |
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