On 9/16/2011 9:55 AM, Jack Campin wrote:
I went to three sales in all, starting Friday morning. I came
away with two real finds;

Dick Francis, Nerve (Harper& Row 1964) book club edition,
near fine (bookplate of former owner) in a very good- jacket
(two small tears).

If I'd seen that come in to the charity bookshop I work in, it would have
gone straight into the box of stuff to sell for pulp. No way would I have
bothered to look up a value for it.

People really pay money for book club editions of Dick Francis?

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Presumably they do for real early ones. This was, I
believe, his second novel and is fairly scarce in hardcover.
The condition also helped.

--
Francis A. Miniter

Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.
Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,
Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus I, lines 33 - 35