book insane update
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:03:57 -0800
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You just never know. The autobiography of Princess Ileana of Romania is
priced in the hundreds of dollars. Who knows why. You can tell a true
first edition of Through the Looking Glass by the fact that it has the
slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the WADE, not the WABE. Which
strangely enough is what the funkily re-bound copy in amongst all the
much newer books happens to say. Wade. Making the darn thing worth,
say, three to ten times what we paid for the whole mess. Now if we can
just unload it on somebody. Makes me uncomfortable just having it
around. Also learned that Ernest Hemingway's wife was a writer and that
her book, which we have, is priced over 100 bucks. Poor gal, don't even
know her name and nobody really wants to read her book, but it's worth
money because she was married to old shotgun head. Some old thing you'd
never think turns out to be a scarce first edition of some esteemed
writer, worth 75 bucks, and what do you know here's three or four in a
row. Well, asking price is one thing, but it's worth what you can get
for it. If it's sitting on the shelf it won't buy groceries. I shudder
to think what the contents of our dining room table would bring if we
could just get people to pay for them. Glad I beefed up all the
security measures on the house to protect us from all you book thieves
reading this. You'd probably get a hundred bucks for it all and stay
high for a day and a half, you jerks.
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 06:33:47 GMT
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nenslo wrote:
> You just never know. The autobiography of Princess Ileana of Romania is
> priced in the hundreds of dollars. Who knows why. You can tell a true
> first edition of Through the Looking Glass by the fact that it has the
> slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the WADE, not the WABE. Which
> strangely enough is what the funkily re-bound copy in amongst all the
> much newer books happens to say. Wade. Making the darn thing worth,
> say, three to ten times what we paid for the whole mess. Now if we can
> just unload it on somebody. Makes me uncomfortable just having it
> around. Also learned that Ernest Hemingway's wife was a writer and that
> her book, which we have, is priced over 100 bucks. Poor gal, don't even
> know her name and nobody really wants to read her book, but it's worth
> money because she was married to old shotgun head. Some old thing you'd
> never think turns out to be a scarce first edition of some esteemed
> writer, worth 75 bucks, and what do you know here's three or four in a
> row. Well, asking price is one thing, but it's worth what you can get
> for it. If it's sitting on the shelf it won't buy groceries. I shudder
> to think what the contents of our dining room table would bring if we
> could just get people to pay for them. Glad I beefed up all the
> security measures on the house to protect us from all you book thieves
> reading this. You'd probably get a hundred bucks for it all and stay
> high for a day and a half, you jerks.
Neat! It's worth it to go through old book collections,
because you never know! I am continually amazed at the
amout of stuff people put into storage and then just walk
away from. And you don't always have to buy the entire
contents, but check the dumpster area, too. If the stuff has
moved to there, it's been picked over but people look for
shiney stuff and neglect artwork and books, especially books.
But if you can get a storage unit contents for a hundred or less
you almost always get your money back and then some.
I got a great, heavy ink pen with an iridium and gold point!
I found a brand new condition glass top table, the glass top
is three-inches thick 4'x'4' and just the glass is worth $200+
the edges are nicely ground rounded. But you are lucky to be
able to do some of your own rebinding, that will useful to you.
I like the term, "slightly foxed" although foxing is not something
that you want in a book.
"Quarter cloth, teg, paper over boards, some slight wear, endpapers slightly
foxed."
http://www.foxedquarterly.com/
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:35:22 -0800
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nenslo wrote:
>
> You just never know. The autobiography of Princess Ileana of Romania is
> priced in the hundreds of dollars. Who knows why. You can tell a true
> first edition of Through the Looking Glass by the fact that it has the
> slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the WADE, not the WABE. Which
> strangely enough is what the funkily re-bound copy in amongst all the
> much newer books happens to say. Wade. Making the darn thing worth,
> say, three to ten times what we paid for the whole mess. Now if we can
> just unload it on somebody. Makes me uncomfortable just having it
> around. Also learned that Ernest Hemingway's wife was a writer and that
> her book, which we have, is priced over 100 bucks. Poor gal, don't even
> know her name and nobody really wants to read her book, but it's worth
> money because she was married to old shotgun head. Some old thing you'd
> never think turns out to be a scarce first edition of some esteemed
> writer, worth 75 bucks, and what do you know here's three or four in a
> row. Well, asking price is one thing, but it's worth what you can get
> for it. If it's sitting on the shelf it won't buy groceries. I shudder
> to think what the contents of our dining room table would bring if we
> could just get people to pay for them. Glad I beefed up all the
> security measures on the house to protect us from all you book thieves
> reading this. You'd probably get a hundred bucks for it all and stay
> high for a day and a half, you jerks.
When I think about it though, a good laptop is worth way more than even
the priciest book we have, and easier to turn into cash, and our entire
stock is worth about the same as the media collection of the average
music geek, and takes up a lot more space. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I AM
UNLOADING THE SHOTGUN THOUGH. Another thing I have learned while looking
up books is that people think FIRST EDITION is magic words. Even if
there are 300 copies of something online, the ones priced at a dollar
sixty five still say FIRST EDITION in the description so you will say oh
I better get that unknown 1940s historical romance because it's a FIRST
EDITION!!!! You jerks.
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:02:18 GMT
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In article <41E36C4A.72C04AD1@yahoox.com>, nenslo
wrote:
> You just never know. The autobiography of Princess Ileana of Romania is
> priced in the hundreds of dollars. Who knows why. You can tell a true
> first edition of Through the Looking Glass by the fact that it has the
> slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the WADE, not the WABE. Which
> strangely enough is what the funkily re-bound copy in amongst all the
> much newer books happens to say. Wade. Making the darn thing worth,
> say, three to ten times what we paid for the whole mess. Now if we can
> just unload it on somebody. Makes me uncomfortable just having it
> around.
Some people say the same about you n' me, but as far as I am concerned,
they may eat 5 pounds of old chopped-up People magazines floating in PGA.
Mere acquisitiveness for its own sake is abject horseshit. I will
always be a bit puzzled as to why people think they need a full set of
ANYTHING. Those dumbassed DVD sets that have longer outtakes and
interviews than actual flick are particularly egregious.
A first edition is no more precious than its content. I paid about $15
for a mass-produced Japanese cork garden in a glass enclosure and $13
for a Planet Express spaceship from "Futurama." One is beautifully
crafted and the other is plastic crap (SACRED crap but still crap), but
I'd not part with either for a first edition of some book I can pick up
for $3 at a used goods store. By god, you'll see J. Jonah Jameson
french-kissing Spider-Man first.
--
HellPope Huey
My glands are a-drainin' and my eyesight's a wreck
and my brain is a slag heap full of grackle pecks but
I paid m'$30 and m'mind's propped up and thanks to
"Bobby" Dobbs my pils are sent in free from a P.O. Box
in Whatalottastan and oom poppa oom poppa oom poppa
mow mow hip shot rim job kitty kitty cow cow bleep eep
eep eep eep eepeepeepeepeepeepeepeep*
"You know what you need?
A good old-fashioned spanking."
- Elvis in "Blue Hawaii"
"Life creates itself in delerium...
...and is undone in ennui "
-E. M. Cioran
Correspondent:: "Pjk"
Date: 11 Jan 2005 10:08:16 -0800
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Martha Gelhorn. Hemingway's third wife, ("War is a malignant disease,
an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is beyond telling or
meaning; but war was our condition
and our history, the place we had to live in.") was a well-known author
and war -correspondant, before she met Hemingway, while she was married
to him, and after they divorced. There are some people who read her
fiction and non-fiction for its own merits.
Pjk
Correspondent:: nenslo
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:57:09 -0800
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Pjk wrote:
>
> Martha Gelhorn. Hemingway's third wife, ("War is a malignant disease,
> an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is beyond telling or
> meaning; but war was our condition
> and our history, the place we had to live in.") was a well-known author
> and war -correspondant, before she met Hemingway, while she was married
> to him, and after they divorced. There are some people who read her
> fiction and non-fiction for its own merits.
>
> Pjk
Well NOT ME because I am a IGNORAMUS.
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:47:52 GMT
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In article <41E4D852.986BCA68@yahoox.com>, nenslo
wrote:
> Pjk wrote:
> >
> > Martha Gelhorn. Hemingway's third wife, ("War is a malignant disease,
> > an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is beyond telling or
> > meaning; but war was our condition
> > and our history, the place we had to live in.") was a well-known author
> > and war -correspondant, before she met Hemingway, while she was married
> > to him, and after they divorced. There are some people who read her
> > fiction and non-fiction for its own merits.
> Well NOT ME because I am a IGNORAMUS.
and inexplicably equipped with a small, curly tail.
--
HellPope Huey
The C.H.U.D.s used to stick to the sewers;
now they're at the damned malls
At some point in time,
you will come to the realization
that almost everybody is making
Howard Dean sounds.
- Revi Shankar
"Nietsche is Pietsche."
- Ogden Nash
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 11 Jan 2005 22:27:44 GMT
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<
priced in the hundreds of dollars. Who knows why. You can tell a true
first edition of Through the Looking Glass by the fact that it has the
slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the WADE, not the WABE. Which
strangely enough is what the funkily re-bound copy in amongst all the
much newer books happens to say. Wade. Making the darn thing worth,
say, three to ten times what we paid for the whole mess. Now if we can
just unload it on somebody. Makes me uncomfortable just having it
around. Also learned that Ernest Hemingway's wife was a writer and that
her book, which we have, is priced over 100 bucks. Poor gal, don't even
know her name and nobody really wants to read her book, but it's worth
money because she was married to old shotgun head. Some old thing you'd
never think turns out to be a scarce first edition of some esteemed
writer, worth 75 bucks, and what do you know here's three or four in a
row. Well, asking price is one thing, but it's worth what you can get
for it. If it's sitting on the shelf it won't buy groceries. I shudder
to think what the contents of our dining room table would bring if we
could just get people to pay for them. Glad I beefed up all the
security measures on the house to protect us from all you book thieves
reading this. You'd probably get a hundred bucks for it all and stay
high for a day and a half, you jerks.>>
Yeah, I have a few like that as well. I'll trade you a first edition of Poe's
Tales of Mystery and Imagination for the non-"wabe", maybe. I'd have to see it
first.
ooOOoo
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