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Hooray for Abe
To balance some of the negative comments about Abe round here recently, I'd
like to speak in praise of their want list feature. A few days ago a US bookseller listed a book which I have been in search of for years, Frank Harris's little-known novel "Love in Youth". Within a few minutes I had the email notification from Abe and had ordered the book, which arrived today. Sweet, as they say, as a nut. -- Alfred Armstrong Unusual books unmasked at http://www.oddbooks.com/ "The eye has been described by scientists as a small-sized volcano" - Webster Edgerly |
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On 20 Feb 2004 10:46:06 GMT, Alfred Armstrong
declared: To balance some of the negative comments about Abe round here recently, I'd like to speak in praise of their want list feature. A few days ago a US bookseller listed a book which I have been in search of for years, Frank Harris's little-known novel "Love in Youth". Within a few minutes I had the email notification from Abe and had ordered the book, which arrived today. Sweet, as they say, as a nut. that is a handy feature, i've had a few good matches that way :-) Robert The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I'm getting used to it now Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I've lived all over this town This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around |
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MindElec wrote in
: On 20 Feb 2004 10:46:06 GMT, Alfred Armstrong declared: To balance some of the negative comments about Abe round here recently, I'd like to speak in praise of their want list feature. A few days ago a US bookseller listed a book which I have been in search of for years, Frank Harris's little-known novel "Love in Youth". Within a few minutes I had the email notification from Abe and had ordered the book, which arrived today. Sweet, as they say, as a nut. that is a handy feature, i've had a few good matches that way :-) It's my first, despite registering a bunch a few years ago. All of them very difficult to find, presumably, but that's where a service like this really scores. -- Alfred Armstrong Unusual books unmasked at http://www.oddbooks.com/ "Our nose does not only serve the purpose of respiration, but the purpose of smelling also." - Frank Nimrod |
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"Alfred Armstrong" wrote in message
... that is a handy feature, i've had a few good matches that way :-) It's my first, despite registering a bunch a few years ago. All of them very difficult to find, presumably, but that's where a service like this really scores. I've had a bunch in the last 2-3 years: (1) Daniel Barber, *Catholic Worship and Piety* (Washington City [one of my favorite imprints], 1821)--a book I expected never to own--for $30 from a little dealer in Maine. (2) Two cheaply priced copies of Charles A. Frazee, *Catholics and Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923* (1983). I quickly sold the second copy for the price of the two. (3) Just recently I was alerted to a bibliography that I have been looking for for a while: Anne Klejment, *Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker: a Bibliography and Index* (1986). This is particularly good timing because I am attending a history conference in April which Prof. Klejment is also attending--I hope she, among a number of other scholars, will sign. (4) Which reminds me of perhaps best of all, a signed first edition of Dorothy Day's convert memoir *From Union Square to Rome* (1938). For anyone interested, there is an online text available he http://www.catholicworker.org/doroth...t.cfm?TextID=2 I got my copy for a very reasonable price from the good guys at Bolerium Books: http://www.bolerium.com (Dorothy Day and other radical Catholic converts are about the only point where my interests overlap with their specialties--but I respect them as good bookmen.) Getting this signed copy almost--ALMOST--made up for my biggest anti-brag. About 5 years ago, in my earliest days on eBay, I missed a rather tatttered copy of Dorothy Day's *The Eleventh Virgin* (1924) that went for about $50. That seemed to rich for me at the time--surely another, better copy would come around. Unfortunately, I didn't know at the time how rare the book is: It was Day's first book, an autobiographical novel that she quickly came to regret publishing. It is documented (she confessed) that she gathered up and destroyed as many copies as she could find, so it is a true rarity. The last copy I saw for sale had a price tag in the low 5 figures! William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com |
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William M. Klimon wrote:
I've had a bunch in the last 2-3 years: I had one a while back - Murakami's Pinball 1972 (which led to a saga that I posted details of here) - then one (Nobuki's Dwarf Trees) that I badly wanted but made the mistake of e-mailing the seller instead of buying immediately from the ABE site; by the time the seller read my e-mail she'd already sold it to someone else over the phone. And yesterday I got a third, a copy of a work by the all-but-forgotten Victorian writer Grace Webster (the one whose letters were found in a chimney in Edinburgh a couple of years ago and which I bought). It's a duplicate copy of a work of hers I already have, but at least now I'm getting a second copy I can pass it around to others to see if they like it as much as I did. -- John http://rarebooksinjapan.com |
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