Best Brags for 2004 and Just Missed...

From the wording of your post, you are most certainly a male. The real
question is not sex, but species.

Identify your species and I might reply. After all, I must tailor my answer
to suit your branch of the evolutionary tree...

TTFN,
Willow

I am a transsexual woman.


When you say transsexual woman, do you mean a guy w/o balls or a broad
with a
dick?




"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:55:43 GMT, "Willow Arune"
wrote:

For me, two highlights:

* in my area of interest, one novel stands out. Written in 1966,
published
on both sides of the Atlantic, released in pocketbook, and then a
movie,
the
book faded into obscurity save for a loyal few. It actually became a
legend. The writer was assumed to be dead.

There were two novels that he wrote, and several by others using the
same
name.

Anyway, by digging around on the Internet, I finally located the
screenwriter of the movie, and she notwithstandign a stoke, has saved
her
correspondence with the novelist form 1972! Relying on teh norm that
thsoe
I knwo in teh UK do not move often, I used the address on a Brit Post
site,
got teh code, and then had a a town bulletin board check to see the
name -
same person!!! A trip to Brit Tel got me the telephone number, and
finally
a post and subsequent telephoen call resulted in perhaps the only known
autographed copies of this writer's two books!!!

* I located antoehr writer, nto after such a long timie, but fifteeen
years,
and managed to respect her privacy and also get teh three copies of her
book
autographed, thanks to FedEx a delightful detour!!!

Too many more - it was a good book year me!!!

What were the books? Who's the author?


************************************************** *****

"Les livres font les époques et les nations,
commes les époques et les nations font les livres."

_Mélanges littéraires_
Jean-Jacques Ampère
(1800-1864)

Willow Arune wrote:

From the wording of your post, you are most certainly a male. The real
question is not sex, but species.

Identify your species and I might reply. After all, I must tailor my answer
to suit your branch of the evolutionary tree...

TTFN,
Willow

I am a transsexual woman.


When you say transsexual woman, do you mean a guy w/o balls or a broad
with a
dick?




"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:55:43 GMT, "Willow Arune"
wrote:

For me, two highlights:

* in my area of interest, one novel stands out. Written in 1966,
published
on both sides of the Atlantic, released in pocketbook, and then a
movie,
the
book faded into obscurity save for a loyal few. It actually became a
legend. The writer was assumed to be dead.

There were two novels that he wrote, and several by others using the
same
name.

Anyway, by digging around on the Internet, I finally located the
screenwriter of the movie, and she notwithstandign a stoke, has saved
her
correspondence with the novelist form 1972! Relying on teh norm that
thsoe
I knwo in teh UK do not move often, I used the address on a Brit Post
site,
got teh code, and then had a a town bulletin board check to see the
name -
same person!!! A trip to Brit Tel got me the telephone number, and
finally
a post and subsequent telephoen call resulted in perhaps the only known
autographed copies of this writer's two books!!!

* I located antoehr writer, nto after such a long timie, but fifteeen
years,
and managed to respect her privacy and also get teh three copies of her
book
autographed, thanks to FedEx a delightful detour!!!

Too many more - it was a good book year me!!!

What were the books? Who's the author?


************************************************** *****

"Les livres font les époques et les nations,
commes les époques et les nations font les livres."

_Mélanges littéraires_
Jean-Jacques Ampère
(1800-1864)





Now now! Just because a guy is plain spoken - even needlessly 'blunt',
one might say - is no reason to accuse him of having had a neanderthal
in the woodshed somewhere back down his family line.

You were the one who mentioned your unusual gender situation first ( so
you must be willing to talk about it ), and I will admit to a certain
curiosity myself. I assume from your wording that you were born
physically male and switched to female as your gender preference...is
that the case? Was it a 'full op' commitment, or more of a hormones and
living-as decision? Is it all working out the way you had hoped? Do you
have the support of family and friends? Living with someone? Are you
happy? enquiring minds want to know mode

--

Not a replacement for genuine human interaction.

Ah yes, well I can be rather plain spoken as well. In the family tree is
one matter, but the wording suggested a more immediate connection...

Now now! Just because a guy is plain spoken - even needlessly 'blunt',
one might say - is no reason to accuse him of having had a neanderthal
in the woodshed somewhere back down his family line.

Indeed I am willing to talk - I think it is totally wonderful. And yes,
your assumtion is correct as to the direction of my journey. Also yes is
that I am oen of thsoe who did go all the way, a post-op, if you will.
Hormones included.

Happy??? Overjoyed. Absolutily delighted. I do not hide (obviosuly) but
few in my twon know, and I suspect fewer would care if they did. Naturally,
as I life long book collector, it was only natural to try to capture our
rather brief history in books.

Regarding relationships, as I caution others, you are bound to loose before
you gain. I lost only two friends out of many, and both of those male.
Since then, I have more than made up ground. Women, save for very religious
or very hard lesbian, are not an issue ever, nor as a rule are gay men. You
hetero types - that is a horse of a far differnt colour. Strange, but then,
I never understood even when I was one. Family? All gone. Not one left.
I am told my mother died a year or so ago, not by my sisters, but bya former
housekeeper. Ah well, that's life.

I live with my five year partner and we collectivly have ten cats and three
dogs. I am the dog person and if the pets take a vote by weight, I always
win!!!! One Great Pyrennes does tend to weigh a lot!!!!

Hugs,
Willow

Pags, you'll be happy to note that a fellow in the U.K. has almost finished
a biography of Bramah, which should be published this year. Apparently he
did get around, as you mentioned. One of my finds in 2004 was three sets of
ledger sheets written by his publisher after his death, showing royalty
values of various books for the inheritance taxes. An autobiography is
listed, but it was almost certainly destroyed by his wife.

As for a biblio, no book; there were only a number of articles by William
White. In a sense, I have "published" the bibliography on my website (one
kind dealer here refers to the "Berro" number in the ABE listing.) It would
make for a small printed book.

---Mike
http://www.ernestbramah.com
P.S. I prefer top-posting, and I do unto others, so complainers should quit
whining.

"paghat" wrote in message
news
In article , Bud Webster
wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:27:50 -0800, "Mike Berro"
wrote:

My best finds were hitherto unrecorded 2nd and later editions of Ernest
Bramah books. It's rather challenging collecting books you are not sure
exist. My best brags are a few mentions in recently published books,
primarily because of material I had in my collections. This year my
collection "justified" its existence to a certain extent.

Mike, is there a published bibliography for Bramah? If there isn't,
aren't you the one to assemble it?

The most I ever encountered about Bramah in one spot was in Richard
Grant's memoir, which was also a delightful source for an intimate
portrait of Thomas Burke (I included the Grant remembrance of Burke as an
addendum to my volume of Burke's complete weird tales, THE GOLDEN GONG &
Other Night-Pieces & Unpleasantries). Commentators on modern fantasy &
detective fiction have tended to liken Bramah to a furtive hermit who left
few traces of himself, but the reality seems to be that he was extremely
gregarious & a bit of a dandy showing himself off in literary & nuministic
clubs & gatherings, not hermit-like in the least. Yet he was adverse to
self-promotion & managed to evade all the standard references. Someone
like Mike really should pursue the possibility of a full-blown biography,
though tracking down surviving correspondence & never-published source
materials might be a chore with considerabole travel expenses to check out
the special collections holdings of his compatriots, though universities
scattered around England & America.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:31:02 -0800, "Mike Berro"
wrote:


As for a biblio, no book; there were only a number of articles by William
White. In a sense, I have "published" the bibliography on my website (one
kind dealer here refers to the "Berro" number in the ABE listing.) It would
make for a small printed book.

Yeah, that's what *I* thought six years ago. I'm up to 90+ pages now.
So, do what I was planning to do before John Betancourt convinced me
that Wildside was the way to go: publish it yourself.

Do as complete a biblio as you can, track down the foreign reprints,
hunt down the various variants, and do a 8-10 page bio. Did Bramah do
work under other pseudonyms? Has copyright expired on those articles,
and if so, are any worth reprinting? Have there been Kai Lung
pastiches?

Mike, if I can do a well-received index of a (currently, at least)
fairly obscure anthologist, you can do THIS. It's at least *as*
worthy a subject, if not more so. I ain't nothing special, pal. Just
determined.

I'll toss in my brag, although the story is not yet complete.

Early in December I attended the FOL sale at the Evanston (Illinois)
public library. Among the other books I picked up was a copy of the
third edition of "An Ainu-Japanese-English Dictionary," by John
Batchelor. It cost me $2.00. I was acting on my "shoulda" buying
principle, which is that if nobody wanted to buy it, somebody shoulda!
I hoped I could sell it on eBay for maybe $5.00.

The next day the topic of my book selling hobby came up during a visit
with friends. One of them operates his own small press, and his
college-age son is interested in doing what I do. His son mentioned
the stories about people who pick up a book for next to nothing at a
garage sale or library sale and discover that it is tremendously
valuable. I said, "That really happens, but it happens, like, once
every 10 years. It's not going to happen to you or me!"

A few days later I got around to looking up my latest finds on
ABEbooks. Two copies of the dictionary are listed: the fourth edition
for $472.60, and the second edition for $1493.20.

I know that ABEbooks prices are often inflated, but they usually
there's some relation to reality. Those numbers have made me very
thoughtful about my third edition. I need to consult an expert about
the value of this book before I throw it on eBay. Because of the
holidays, though, I have not had time to find the right expert yet.

My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:01:46 GMT, "Willow Arune"
wrote:

An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary. (Including a grammar of the
Ainu language). Two parts in one volume. Tokyo, Published by the Methodist
Publishing House, Ginza,1905.

The only copy listed on Abebooks...

Try searching for author = "Batchelor" and title = "Ainu Dictionary".
The other copy is still there -- I checked before posting, and checked
again just now.

An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary
BATCHELOR, Dr. J.
Price: US$ 472.60 [Convert Currency]
Shipping: [Rates and Speeds]
Add Book to Shopping Basket
Book Details


Book Description: Tokyo, handsome reprint of the1938 edition;
xxvii [5] 707pp; portrait frontispiece (tissued); presented in
publisher's cloth, sleeve, and slipcase. Fine. *This scholarly
volume includes various chapters on grammar, syntax and Ainu
legends, and in addition to the main dictionary, has an
English-Ainu vocabulary and chapter in Japanese. Bookseller
Inventory #AB030244

Bookseller: Thornton's Bookshop (Oxford, OXF, United Kingdom)

My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.

Do as complete a biblio as you can, track down the foreign reprints,
hunt down the various variants, and do a 8-10 page bio. Did Bramah do
work under other pseudonyms? Has copyright expired on those articles,
and if so, are any worth reprinting? Have there been Kai Lung
pastiches?

Mike, if I can do a well-received index of a (currently, at least)
fairly obscure anthologist, you can do THIS. It's at least *as*
worthy a subject, if not more so. I ain't nothing special, pal. Just
determined.

Thanx for the words of encouragement. My biblio is as complete as possible;
I've been collecting all versions and variants for many years (hmm, two
decades), even mere mentions of Bramah or his books (Thorne Smith has a
character reading a "Kai Lung" novel.) Wildside has already reprinted the
stories that have passed into PD. If you mean William White's articles, I
could get permission to reprint them (I had obtained written permission to
use them as the basis of my website.)

It's all do-able, but, as heretical as this sounds, is a printed book
preferable to a web site? I'm *still* finding new variants.

---Mike

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:23:21 -0800, "Mike Berro"
wrote:


It's all do-able, but, as heretical as this sounds, is a printed book
preferable to a web site? I'm *still* finding new variants.

Mike, my point in doing a physical book was so that collectors would
have something handy to stick in their back pockets or a fanny pack to
carry into bookshops and dealers' rooms, on the assumption that a back
pocket/fanny pack is still a little cheaper than a laptop/PDA. Plus,
I'm just enough of a traditionalista to want the artifact rather than
the phosphers.

As for the rest, Mikey me lad, we will NEVER BE FINISHED. Understand
that and accept it as fact: there will always be new information to
turn up, yet another German/Russian/Italian edition to find, yet
another stack of letters in someone's attic. Bibliographers NEVER
finish their projects, it's the basic nature of the beast. That's why
god made PoD, so that the revised, expanded edition is a lot easier to
turn out. By the time I'm ready to go back to Wildside for the next
edition, I hope to have doubled the length of the biography, and added
still more to the checklist. That's how these things work. Besides
that, why not try and get some financial compensation for all the work
you've put into it?

Having said that, I will still encourage you to do this. Who better
than you?

"Willow Arune" wrote in message
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The first novel to deal with transsexuality was in 1966.


Believe it or not, there is actually a Catholic convert account by someone
who was struggling with gender issues, so to speak. I can't pull it right
now nor recall the author or title.


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