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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
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). Alan Furst, Dark Star (Houghton Mifflin 1991) fine in a fine dust jacket, no marks. -- 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 |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On Sep 10, 4:46*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
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). I'm a big Dick Francis fan, and have the entire series, most in British or American firsts (a few even signed!). The hardest one to get was FORFEIT, perhaps because that's the book that won him the Edgar. I finally found it a few weeks ago on eBay, for a bit more than I'd wanted to pay--but when I got the book, I was very pleased with its condition, and satisfied to have completed my collection. Not long after that, I spotted the last Simon Raven novel I needed, PLACES WHERE THEY SING, this for a very good price indeed. It really just seems to be a matter of patience, and going out there and looking, both in cyberspace, and in the real world. (I found a Richard Matheson short story collection at The Strand--where they are not noted for under-pricing "rare" books--for less than anyone else was asking!) |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On 9/10/2011 17:59 PM, J wrote:
On Sep 10, 4:46�pm, "Francis A. 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). I'm a big Dick Francis fan, and have the entire series, most in British or American firsts (a few even signed!). The hardest one to get was FORFEIT, perhaps because that's the book that won him the Edgar. I finally found it a few weeks ago on eBay, for a bit more than I'd wanted to pay--but when I got the book, I was very pleased with its condition, and satisfied to have completed my collection. Not long after that, I spotted the last Simon Raven novel I needed, PLACES WHERE THEY SING, this for a very good price indeed. It really just seems to be a matter of patience, and going out there and looking, both in cyberspace, and in the real world. (I found a Richard Matheson short story collection at The Strand--where they are not noted for under-pricing "rare" books--for less than anyone else was asking!) Very nice indeed. Dick Francis was prolific, so that must have been quite the effort. You remind me of something I read a few years back about the rare book library at the University of Toronto. They had a collection of the works of Margaret Atwood, the Toronto novelist. They boasted the completeness of their collection, including a copy of every one of her works in translation! Now that is something that the average person is not going to be able to achieve. -- 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 |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On Sep 11, 4:33*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote: You remind me of something I read a few years back about the rare book library at the University of Toronto. *They had a collection of the works of Margaret Atwood, the Toronto novelist. *They boasted the completeness of their collection, including a copy of every one of her works in translation! *Now that is something that the average person is not going to be able to achieve. I read no language but English, but I still have a few foreign language editions of authors I like and collect. Part of Dick Francis' novel TRIAL RUN is set in Moscow, so I have a copy in Russian, and I have some Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout in every language I could get my hands on (German, Finnish, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Portuguese, and Russian--so far, I've never seen one in French in hardcover). |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On 9/11/2011 22:04 PM, J wrote:
On Sep 11, 4:33�pm, "Francis A. wrote: You remind me of something I read a few years back about the rare book library at the University of Toronto. �They had a collection of the works of Margaret Atwood, the Toronto novelist. �They boasted the completeness of their collection, including a copy of every one of her works in translation! �Now that is something that the average person is not going to be able to achieve. I read no language but English, but I still have a few foreign language editions of authors I like and collect. Part of Dick Francis' novel TRIAL RUN is set in Moscow, so I have a copy in Russian, and I have some Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout in every language I could get my hands on (German, Finnish, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Portuguese, and Russian--so far, I've never seen one in French in hardcover). And just today at Goodwill I picked up three Dick Francis British firsts - Straight; Driving Force; The Edge - with the only defects being a bit of delamination on the bottom edge of two of the three dust jackets and an owner's name in two of them. I am quite happy enough. -- 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 |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On Sep 15, 9:22*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote: And just today at Goodwill I picked up three Dick Francis British firsts - Straight; Driving Force; The Edge - with the only defects being a bit of delamination on the bottom edge of two of the three dust jackets and an owner's name in two of them. *I am quite happy enough. And I think the British jackets are so much nicer than the American... |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557 http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ c a m p i n . m e . u k Jack Campin, 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland mobile 07800 739 557http://www.campin.me.uk Twitter: JackCampin 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 |
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A Fine Weekend at Library Book Sales
On Sep 16, 12:21*pm, "Francis A. Miniter"
wrote: Presumably they do for real early ones. *This was, I believe, his second novel and is fairly scarce in hardcover. * The condition also helped. Scarce enough that I was happy to get it in the Harper three-in-one of Francis novels, THREE TO SHOW. |
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