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Book Called "Mongo"
I am not sure if anyone has read a book by the name of "Mongo." It is about
people in New York city who collect items (called mongo) from the curbside trash. There is a great chapter on a guy who finds books thrown in the trash, and has found some that are worth thousands. It is tragic in some sense because relatives throw away valuable books because they have no knowledge of book collecting. I had checked my local library for the Mongo book, and there was a twenty-four person waiting list. I forgot about it. Then a couple of weeks ago I was driving through this small town, and noticed the local library, and decided to drop in. They had a couple of shelves of used books for sale, and what book was on the shelf, but "Mongo." I got if for twenty-five cents. It was a "readers copy" that they send to reviewers. I guess I found my copy of Mongo because of mongo. It is an interesting read. Tom |
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... I am not sure if anyone has read a book by the name of "Mongo." It is about people in New York city who collect items (called mongo) from the curbside trash. There is a great chapter on a guy who finds books thrown in the trash, and has found some that are worth thousands. It is tragic in some sense because relatives throw away valuable books because they have no knowledge of book collecting. I had checked my local library for the Mongo book, and there was a twenty-four person waiting list. I forgot about it. Then a couple of weeks ago I was driving through this small town, and noticed the local library, and decided to drop in. They had a couple of shelves of used books for sale, and what book was on the shelf, but "Mongo." I got if for twenty-five cents. It was a "readers copy" that they send to reviewers. I guess I found my copy of Mongo because of mongo. It is an interesting read. I thought it was a decent read. The book hunter's chapter described his interesting methodology. He follows a carefully devised route through NYC during the wee hours (before the garbage is picked up). He is very selective, takes only what he can carry (although he did stash some Sotheby's catalogs in one of those free newspaper boxes for later retrieval), and disposes of everything he has found that day (first stop for selling was The Strand). He had amazing good luck going through the garbage finding firsts of early Ian Fleming, a first of ULYSSES, and the entire archive of a Broadway producer with thousands of dollars worth of autographs, among other things. William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com |
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