If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
Backstory:
Every year, for the past eight or nine years, I gave my girlfriend a copy of the "Christmas Carol" I have always tried to give an unusual and relatively rare copy. It commerates our first Christmas when prior to going to a local production of "A Christmas Carol" I gave her an undistinguished copy of the Book. One year, I happened upon a Roycroft "Christmas Carol" together with another "Christmas Book" The Question: As I remember, the Roycroft suede was red (ABE gives the color as green) and immaculate the other "Christmas Book" was green and again immaculate.(Both Suede) Assumimg they are in still the same condition, can anyone give me a guess on a price. The best ABE can come up with is four hundred dollars for a relatively tatty copy. I am as sentimental as the next person (more so probably) but if she could realise substantial returns or a trade for a more stable volume, I would like to advise her to do so. Thank you, Ted |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
"Ted Jones" wrote in message ... Every year, for the past eight or nine years, I gave my girlfriend [...] I am as sentimental as the next person (more so probably) If you're so sentimental, how come you haven't made an honest woman of this poor girl after nearly ten years. Bounder. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
"fundoc" wrote in
news "Ted Jones" wrote in message ... Every year, for the past eight or nine years, I gave my girlfriend [...] I am as sentimental as the next person (more so probably) If you're so sentimental, how come you haven't made an honest woman of this poor girl after nearly ten years. Bounder. I am only guilty of attempted matrimony. She said no. So I remain in this moral morass. Condemned to perpetually purchasing "Christmas Carol"s |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
fundoc wrote:
"Raja" wrote... "fundoc" wrote: "Ted Jones" wrote... Every year, for the past eight or nine years, I gave my girlfriend[...] I am as sentimental as the next person (more so probably) If you're so sentimental, how come you haven't made an honest woman of this poor girl after nearly ten years. Bounder. I am only guilty of attempted matrimony. She said no. So I remain in this moral morass. Condemned to perpetually purchasing "Christmas Carol"s Perhaps next year you should get her a copy of Great Expectations. Which would invite a return gift of _Hard Times_ and _Bleak House_, no doubt. --Jon Meyers |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
"fundoc" wrote in news:HSXMf.30055$Zl1.26726
@twister.nyroc.rr.com: "Raja" wrote in message ... "fundoc" wrote in news "Ted Jones" wrote in message ... Every year, for the past eight or nine years, I gave my girlfriend [...] I am as sentimental as the next person (more so probably) If you're so sentimental, how come you haven't made an honest woman of this poor girl after nearly ten years. Bounder. I am only guilty of attempted matrimony. She said no. So I remain in this moral morass. Condemned to perpetually purchasing "Christmas Carol"s Perhaps next year you should get her a copy of Great Expectations. Already Done and bedore you ask, copies of Bleak House, Hard Times, The Battle of Life, A Flight, Frozen Deep, The Haunted Man, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down and The Long Voyage. Unfortunately they were all ensconced within the complete set of the Gadshill Edition I gave her one Christmas. The postage was rather impressive as a remember. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
Perhaps next year you should get her a copy of Great Expectations. Which would invite a return gift of _Hard Times_ and _Bleak House_, no doubt. --Jon Meyers Sorry, when I posted my reply to fundoc, your reply had not yet reached my news server. Does give me another avenue of entreaty. Have to be more cautious recently because she is climbing well over 2000 books and lives in a modest house. I also have to be careful of the books I give her because "gasp" she has a strange tendency to actually read them. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Roycroft Christmas Carol- Value
Ted Jones wrote:
Perhaps next year you should get her a copy of Great Expectations. Which would invite a return gift of _Hard Times_ and _Bleak House_, no doubt. Sorry, when I posted my reply to fundoc, your reply had not yet reached my news server. Does give me another avenue of entreaty. Have to be more cautious recently because she is climbing well over 2000 books and lives in a modest house. I also have to be careful of the books I give her because "gasp" she has a strange tendency to actually read them. Perhaps it's time to dispense with Dickens, who was, it should be pointed out, less than sanguine on the subject of romantic love; fundoc's suggestion of _Great Expectations_ is likely to have the opposite of the desired effect. Move on to another writer. I suggest Walter Scott: _The Betrothed_ and _The Bride of Lammermoor_. And hope she doesn't respond with _The Abbot_ and _The Monastery_. --Jon Meyers |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Identifying facsimile Christmas carol | stanmann | Books | 4 | December 21st 05 11:23 PM |
Hallmark Christmas Ornaments | Beverly Wilder | General | 0 | May 14th 04 10:38 PM |
EBAY ENDING SOON: Christmas Collectable CDs plus other RARE! | CD List Guy | General | 0 | December 31st 03 01:35 AM |
EBAY: Over 100+ Christmas Music CDs For Auction! (some rare items!) | CD List Guy | General | 0 | December 6th 03 08:32 PM |