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Forum: Books November 19th 06, 04:03 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
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Posted By Jerry Morris
One Box (25 Books) to save from your collection: What are they?

Sam the Chainman and I have a mutual friend who was in a real-life
predicament during the California fires a few years ago. Her son was
screaming that the flames were climbing up the hill...
Forum: Books November 2nd 06, 06:34 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 1
Views: 591
Posted By Jerry Morris
Early Robinson Crusoe : Pirate Edition? : Help!

Dear JK,

You have done rather well in your own research. I believe you do have a
copy of the 1719 Dublin edition of "The Farther Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe." You are also correct in surmising...
Forum: Books September 11th 06, 02:07 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 11
Views: 711
Posted By Jerry Morris
What book has eluded you the longest?

I've been lucky in acquiring books I've wanted; but I may have finally
met my match.
I have nineteen of the twenty-one volumes of the London 1821 edition of
the "Plays and Poems of William...
Forum: Books September 4th 06, 10:29 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 13
Views: 1,349
Posted By Jerry Morris
Pricing my collection (using Readerware)

Appraisals,

LiRM,

You should google Robert A. Hittel, a booksller in Fort Laderdale. He
does appraisals.

There is a bibliophile society in your neck of the woods as well: the
Fontaneda Society....
Forum: Books September 3rd 06, 02:26 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 13
Views: 1,349
Posted By Jerry Morris
Pricing my collection (using Readerware)

LiRM,

Where do you life in Florida? I'm about thirty-five miles of Tampa.

Two years ago, I watched the trees begin to bend in the other direction
after the eyes of two hurricanes passed directly...
Forum: Books July 28th 06, 08:23 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 8
Views: 1,220
Posted By Jerry Morris
First American Edition of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems

Jonathan Baker wrote and I snipped:
Just checked. Even if it's not in the NUC, Princeton has a copy, albeit
missing frontispiece & part of the t.p. in vol. 2.
That would be in addition to the Early...
Forum: Books July 28th 06, 02:45 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 5
Views: 2,015
Posted By Jerry Morris
Hunter S. Thompson

Jo,

Welcome to rec.collecting.books.

There are only about twenty threads in the RCB archives which contain
Hunter S. Thompson's name, so he isn't one of the most collected authors
here. Chances...
Forum: Books July 25th 06, 11:55 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 0
Views: 9,543
Posted By Jerry Morris
All praise to R. Dunaway, Bookseller...

Dear Annibale et al,

Here's a link to Goldwater discussing the NYC bookshops of the thirties
and forties. It's from Ralph Dumain's Autododact Project, and is on my
Moi Recommends list. I grew up...
Forum: Books July 23rd 06, 03:10 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 14
Views: 1,160
Posted By Jerry Morris
A collection of two books

Jon,

An interesting article. Thanks.

Jerry

(Jon*Meyers)
Some time back, someone wondered whether or not a "collection", properly
speaking, could consist of as...
Forum: Books July 9th 06, 02:00 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 1
Views: 469
Posted By Jerry Morris
Walter Raleigh's Histotry pf the World

(CML) wrote:
Does anybody have details on early editions? I would like to find out
more about the 1666 edition I have.
Thanks

Chris,

I don't have much. Sir Walter...
Forum: Books July 4th 06, 02:58 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 8
Views: 1,220
Posted By Jerry Morris
First American Edition of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems

Thanks Allison!

As you will soon see, it is even harder today to obtain an accurate
census of this set than it was seventy years ago.

In his book, "Early American Books and Printing," Cambridge,...
Forum: Books July 4th 06, 02:09 AM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 8
Views: 1,220
Posted By Jerry Morris
First American Edition of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems

Rich,

As Ed Sullivan used to say, "Wonderful, just wonderful!"

Thanks for researching the info from the BPIs.

Sandy Malcolm, my London friend, stopped at the British Library, and
gathered the...
Forum: Books July 3rd 06, 05:07 PM Posted to rec.collecting.books
Replies: 8
Views: 1,220
Posted By Jerry Morris
First American Edition of Shakespeare's Plays and Poems

I will be querying several university libraries shortly to see if they
are interested in acquiring the following set:

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare. ...
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