AMOTishQ - what book?
Sarah
your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
here......
My entry is the Atlas optischer Erscheinungen = Atlas de phenomenes
d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
Francon and Jean Claude
Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
French, German and English.
Cheers
Sarah
Sea Wasp
>
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
Conspiracy".
The three-volume edition of "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by
Bruce Halstead.
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Dreamstalker
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
"The King in Yellow" (Armitage House translation/printing). Anyone
familiar with Lovecraft or Robert Chambers will know that play. My
goal is to get it produced as one of the mainstage shows next year
*evilcackle*...actors drive the techies insane, now the techies get
their revenge.
--
"By the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an
existential quandary full of loathing and self doubt and racked with
the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence, at least
you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out
there in this crazy old mixed up universe of ours there's still a
little place called...Albuquerque!" --Weird Al Yankovic, "Albuquerque"
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Clothahump
> Sarah wrote:
>
>>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>>here......
>>
>
> The three-volume edition of "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by
> Bruce Halstead.
>
I've read that. The ending was rather disappointing. I mean, 'the
butler did it" is such an overworked cliche, you know?
:-)
denaldo
While it is probably not obscure enough to be a singleton given
this crowd's eccentric tastes, the only one that comes to mind is
George Rawlinson's translation of "The Persian Wars" by Herodotus.
It is the only 'cheap' used book I own that still cost me more than
its original cover price of a buck and a quarter. (of course, that
was serious money back in 1942.)
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Silicon Shaman
"Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
> Cheers
> Sarah
Unfortunately all to easy for me. "Disc-continuity" A role playing game/book
I wrote and published myself.
The publishing company was successful for a time, the game wasn't. Not that
it was bad, just that the market for rpg's in this country is mostly
students. And this came out about the time student loans came in... even the
die-hard gamers decided that they were going to cut back on spending. At
least for the first couple of years, but by then it was too late.
I still have maybe 20-30 out of original 1000 most were destroyed by
fire...[long story but not deliberate.]
Other than that, I do have an original copy of the paperback edition of
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. [sadly not in very good condition, but it's
slowly being restored.]
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Denny Wheeler
wrote:
>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
A *possible* candidate:
Larousse Gastronomique (but I suspect there are several copies among
the Patronage)
--
-denny-
"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
"John R. Campbell" in a Usenet post.
Gary Jordan
>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
For my birthday this year, my fellow authors in the newsgroup alt.sex.stories.d
threw me a surprise birthday festival. 20 or so of them wrote stories whose
themes involved chocolate, sex, and (usually) a character named Gary. Dryad,
the organizer of this birthday festival (with permission of the other authors)
gathered the stories, printed them out and bound them in a handcrafted hardback
edition, titled "Tales of Chocoerotica."
I have the only existing copy.
I still get emotional when I handle it.
Gary Jordan
"Old submariners never die, they just don't get to go down as often."
<I>"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary
effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." - Francis Bacon,
Essays </I>
Marten Kemp
Description from http://bizbb.com/WorldArtMedalsandPrints/offer/917/
Complete two volume set of antique books: The Great Battles of All
Nations, from Marathon to Santiago, 490 BC - A.D. 1898. The author is
Archibald Wilberforce and the volumes were published by Peter Fenelon
Collier, NY, 1898. The books are "Profusely Illustrated" with approximately
60 full page illustrations. All of the full page prints are one-sided
and printed on heavier glossy paper. Interestingly, the full page
illustrations are photographic half-tones making this one of the earliest
books using actual photographs as illustrations. Even more interesting,
the prints illustrating the current battles of the late 1800's are taken
from actual photographs and are not just an artistic representation.
Gift from an Aunt and Uncle.
Autographed copy of "Team Yankee" by Harold Coyle.
-- Marten Kemp
Beth Jackson
>In the spirit of the other
>book-brag threads,
>what book
>do you have in your collection
>that you think may be not owned
>by anyone else here
>......
"Biblical Limericks" (based on Old Testament verses) with an
introduction by Isaac Asimov.
:-)
Also an incomplete collection of the late great Richard Armour's
satire-books.
(e.g.,
"Twisted Tales From Shakespeare"
"The Classics Re-Classified"
"It All Started With Columbus"
--later updated and retitled
"It All Would Have
Startled Columbus"
"It All Started With Eve"
"Going Around
In Academic Circles:
A Lower View
Of Higher Education"
And maybe a couple of others of that ilk...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Canvas Canary"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I love to paint,
I like to sing,
I have blonde hair, and
I am a little bit flighty:)
(Visit my website to see my art & me;)
summerlady
: your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
: here......
"Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899. It
was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then my
mom's, and now mine.
By Bruce Catton:
"A Stillness At Appomattox"
"Mr. Lincoln's Army"
"Glory Road"
All three are bound in leather, I just love the smell of them. *sniff* I
try to make sure no one sees me sniffing my books. :) They were a gift
from someone who knows what a Civil War and leather fanatic I am.
V.
Kat Dyer
> "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
> : In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> : your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> : here......
>
> "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899. It
> was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then my
> mom's, and now mine.
I have _Under the Lilacs_... and I've read it more then once...
> By Bruce Catton:
> "A Stillness At Appomattox"
> "Mr. Lincoln's Army"
> "Glory Road"
> All three are bound in leather, I just love the smell of them. *sniff* I
> try to make sure no one sees me sniffing my books. :) They were a gift
> from someone who knows what a Civil War and leather fanatic I am.
don't have them in leather...
Kat
Dominic
Hmmm...
Perhaps "English and Scottish Folk Ballads", circa 1850, or my copy of
Sandman #50 signed by Neil Gaiman.
Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig, personally
autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
-Dominic
Sasha Rowan
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> "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> : In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> : your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> : here......
>
> "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899.
It
> was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then my
> mom's, and now mine.
That was one of my favorites.
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summerlady
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: summerlady wrote:
: > "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
: > news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
: > : In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
: > : your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
: > : here......
: >
: > "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899.
It
: > was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then
my
: > mom's, and now mine.
:
: I have _Under the Lilacs_... and I've read it more then once...
I haven't read it in quite a few years, not since my girls grew up. It's
time for me to pass it along to one of them now.
summerlady
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: > "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
: > news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
: > : In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
: > : your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
: > : here......
: >
: > "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899.
: It
: > was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then
my
: > mom's, and now mine.
:
: That was one of my favorites.
And here I was thinking I was the only one who'd read it and loved it. :)
Nice to have company.
dani
-- dani
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
Always be a moving target. Live.Live .Live .......Lois McMaster Bujold Barryar
Arri London
Probably none at all.
The pride of my collection, however, is two incomplete
multivolume editions of Dickens's works. No copyright but
published during his lifetime. Illustrations are all real
engravings. Double-columned, 7-point type. Couldn't find
similar editions when I visited the library of the Dickens
museum in London.
Pat Kight
> Sarah wrote:
>
>>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>>here......
>>
>
>
> An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
>
> An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
> Conspiracy".
"I have that in hardback, courtesy of a friend who was trying to sell
his entire collection of Science Fiction Book Club volumes several years
ago (I adopted all the ones that didn't sell)"
"Me, I have a copy of the 1931 children's book, Little Sallie Mandy, by
Helen R. Van Derveer, discovered a few years ago via Bookfind to replace
the copy my mother grew up with and read to us as children..."
--Jezebel
kig...@peak.org
Kat Dyer
>
> And here I was thinking I was the only one who'd read it and loved it. :)
> Nice to have company.
I also have _Eight Cousins_, _Rose in Bloom_, _Little Women_, _Little
Men_, _Jo's Boys_, and _A Garland for Girls_.
Kat
Sean Cleary
A spacechild's mothergoose.
It was expensive, but I got it.
Sean
sfw
> On 4 May 2003 20:02:14 -0700, s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah)
> wrote:
>>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>>here......
>
>
> A *possible* candidate:
> Larousse Gastronomique (but I suspect there are several copies among
> the Patronage)
At least one. (If I can count books that technically belong to the DH
as mine for purposes of this thread.)
Sarah
sfw
> "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
> : In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> : your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> : here......
>
> "Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899. It
> was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then my
> mom's, and now mine.
My copy of that doesn't have that kind of cool history, and is an early
1900's edition.
I love Alcott.
I have a lot of LM Montgomery too. Sadly, most of those are new editions.
I collect antique children's books. I'm also working on acquiring more
Annie Fellows Johnston books right now.
Sarah
Rev. Melissa Robitille
else has...
I have the "Women's Institute" of Scranton, PA's volumes - variety of stuff,
I do particularly like the one on making over older garments to update the
style and hand-me-down without handing down something grubby.
I have a wide variety of children's literature, some favorites being
Margaret Sidney's Famous Peppers books - 'Five Little Peppers and How They
Grey', 'Five Little Peppers Midway', etc. - and I'm *looking* for other
similar children's lit series books from around that time period (
1880-1900 ), so who knows, I might just find them! I'll have to go and
browse over at The Antiquarian Muse again sometime soon...
"In One Year's Time" and "Blackstone Gate" - considering how they've sold
thus far ( though still available ) I'm willing to bet that *NO ONE* else
here has either of them!
Beyond that, though, I have a wide variety of special-interest sewing,
couture, embellishment, etc. books, and I have a *very* nice collection of
early-19th-century / late-18th-century sewing and handcraft books, and a
fascinating collection of pre WW2 knitting pattern books...
--
Rev. Melissa 'Red Rev' Robitille
Frank McCoy
A SF story: "City of Glass"
Possibly the only copy in existance outside of the LOC.
Probably the very *first* SF story to examine the time-dilation
effects of going close to the speed of light.
It might not be; but I haven't heard of any earlier ones.
It also was a very early book detailing possible ecological disaster
if the world wagged on in it's present manner.
It was written during the war years on old pulp paper; and is as
fragile as an eggshell.
Well ... OK ... I THINK I still have a copy.
I just went down to the library to check; and couldn't find it
offhand. OTOH, I just referenced it about six months to a year ago,
and I DID have it then. It's probably buried in the stack of unsorted
books.
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>Sarah wrote:
>>
>> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>> here......
>>
>
> An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
>
> An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
>Conspiracy".
>
I think I've got a copy of that one.
> The three-volume edition of "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by
>Bruce Halstead.
--
summerlady
I have Little Women, Jo's Boys, Little Men, Eight Cousins and Jack and
Jill, but these are all newer editions. Jack and Jill used to be one of my
real favorites when I was a little kid. I'm gonna have to get A Garland
for Girls and Rose in Bloom.
V.
summerlady
"Rev. Melissa Robitille" <robi...@together.net> wrote in message
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: I have a wide variety of children's literature, some favorites being
: Margaret Sidney's Famous Peppers books - 'Five Little Peppers and How They
: Grey', 'Five Little Peppers Midway', etc. - and I'm *looking* for other
: similar children's lit series books from around that time period (
: 1880-1900 ), so who knows, I might just find them! I'll have to go and
: browse over at The Antiquarian Muse again sometime soon...
Oh wow! I LOVE "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"....
Jai Rose
>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
>
>d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
>Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
>photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
>assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
>French, German and English.
GrannyWench purses her lips and glances round the book shelves in her
study. "How about 'Encyclopedia of Mistresses, An Under-the-Covers Look
at the 'Other Women' of History's Most Influential Men', by Dawn B.
Sova, Ph.D.? I have other entries, but this is my favorite."
Jai
"If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck!" Unknown
Jai Rose
edition 'Garland for Girls', but loaned it to a woman and she refused
point blank to return it. I had no proof it was mine, and she claimed
her daughter had always had it. (One hopes that there is a Universal
Justice Thing after death.)
"Anyway, I've got some more. There's the 'Mozartiana' by my uncle,
Joseph Solman, 'Women in American History', 1919, by Grace Humphrey, and
'The Jade Unicorn' by Jay Halpern.
Kat Dyer
>
> I have Little Women, Jo's Boys, Little Men, Eight Cousins and Jack and
> Jill, but these are all newer editions. Jack and Jill used to be one of my
> real favorites when I was a little kid. I'm gonna have to get A Garland
> for Girls and Rose in Bloom.
Oh, I forgot about _Jack and Jill_... I have that around here somewhere
too... <g> probably because my copies have all gravitated into my
daughter's bookcases where she jealously guards them and won't let them
out! She also has _The Secret Garden_ and _The Little Princess_ as well
as most of my other books... the title that got a friend of mine the
other day... and may well be one that no one else has is _The
Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch_. <g>
Kat
--
The light's green!
Kat Dyer
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
I mentioned _The Active-Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch_
elsewhere in this thread but here's another... _The Three Eras in a
Woman's Life: The Maiden, Wife and Mother_ by T. S. Arthur 1845
Mary Kay, Librarian
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
A book about Pierre Ouvrard, Master Bookbinder - it's an absolutely
amazing book, and anyone who does custom bookbinding should have/get a
copy. The book is mostly pictures of the books he has bound, which are
works of art.
Chasing the Dawn - a cookbook complied by the vendors at the Halifax
Farmer's Market. I got a copy at the market from a chocolatier, who was
giving them away as door prizes. I happened to by the luck person to drop
by when she was taking it out :)
The Seven Lady Godivas - by Dr. Seuss. Quite amusing :)
As well, I have a copy of Antinomy (from a used book store), THHGTTG with
special covers and spine (cover is divided into four, and each of the
books has a different quarter of a picture; spine has "42" in coloured
dots), The Last Song by Tolkien (lovely!), The Film Book of Lord of the
Rings Part One (the Bashkin production), and The Nature of Water and Air -
not so much because it's a rare book, but because there's an interesting
story behind my copy of it [1].
MK :)
[1] I was listening to the noon program on the CBC Halifax, and they had a
book review by the owner of one of the local independent bookstores [2].
She was talking about having read this book, and liking it so much that
she ordered a few copies for her store. A while later, Gabriel Byrnes was
in town filming a movie, and he went into her bookstore to browse. They
got to talking about this book, and it turns out he really liked it. So I
hoofed it down to the bookstore and bought the last copy the store had :)
[2] Frog Hollow Books - at Park Lane Mall on Spring Garden :)
Prophet
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
Well, excluding a very old and tattered dictionary with many useful
appendices, the most likely to be unique book I have is the 25th
Anniversary hardcover edition of GURPS: Traveller (signed by Steve
Jackson. A birthday gift.)
Marc C Allain http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mca
Native American Cultural Association. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mca/naca.html
Mein Gedanken Sind Frei!
Prophet
> A SF story: "City of Glass"
> Possibly the only copy in existance outside of the LOC.
> Probably the very *first* SF story to examine the time-dilation
> effects of going close to the speed of light.
>
Actually, I think my town's library has a copy. I may have
checked it out, but didn't actually get around to reading it.
Author's name?
Prophet
> news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
> > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
>
La Vie A Sainte-Marie by Emery LeBlanc
It's the true history of the not-quite existant village of Saint-Marie,
Kent, New Brunswick. As far as I can tell, it's a parish which covers
parts of three or four other towns but has its own name. Oddly, the
church in this parish doesn't seem to be named Sainte Marie.
It's hard for me to be sure about all of this because the book is in
French and just a little beyond my limited abilities - even with a
dictionary. Still, it's about the home of some of my ancestors -
and includes a story about one of them I first heard from my father.
Sylvia
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
> d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> French, German and English.
>
> Sarah
Cool topic! ;-)
Most of my best brag-worthy books are gone (not by choice!), but I do
still have what appears to be a first edition (1933) Anthony Adverse
by Hervey Allen with lovely artwork on the volume pages. Also a copy
of Opus 100 by Asimov, signed by him at a Newsday Book and Author
luncheon, and a copy of his Sensuous Dirty Old Man that he gave me
personally <BEG> ;-)
Margaret Whittleton
>
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
> My entry is the Atlas optischer Erscheinungen = Atlas de phenomenes
> d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> French, German and English.
>
> Cheers
> Sarah
Mine is a rather battered (spine coming loose and some of the pages
falling out) one-volume copy of Wuthering Heights - by Ellis Bell and
Agnes Grey by Acton Bell. It has a forward by Currer Bell - the date is
1858.
The forward is a biographical notice originally written in 1850 and
explaining just who the Bells really were.
I've no idea of the value - as it's not a first edition, but its
original price was half-a-crown, and is one of Smith, Edler and Co's
"Cheap Editions" It was my mother-in-law's and I've no idea where she
got it.
Marg
Pegeel
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
An old books whose title I can't give right now because it's packed away
waiting for The Wonderful Bookshelves to be finished. However:
It's published in the late 1700s, in America (Philidelphia, as I recall), it's
as big as a really, really big family bible, leather-bound, and is a
compilation of treatises on astrology and related issues. Yes, astrology not
astronomy. Very peculiar book, and someday I want the time to research
whatever happened to the author. Like was he chased out of town for witchcraft
or the like? Or was he adored by deists of the era?
Dang. Wish I could remember what BOX I have it packed in. Just thinking about
it is making me itch to see it again.
Peg
Wesley Struebing
<summerladyv@*x*att.net> wrote:
>
>"Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
>news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
>: In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>: your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>: here......
>
>"Under The Lilacs" by Louisa May Alcott. Illustrated edition from 1899. It
>was originally my great grandmother's book, then my grandmother's, then my
>mom's, and now mine.
>
>By Bruce Catton:
>"A Stillness At Appomattox"
>"Mr. Lincoln's Army"
>"Glory Road"
>All three are bound in leather, I just love the smell of them. *sniff* I
>try to make sure no one sees me sniffing my books. :) They were a gift
>from someone who knows what a Civil War and leather fanatic I am.
A first edition (in two? volumes, H.G. Wells' "History of the World,
Parts 1 and 2")
--
Carpe Dementem! (grab the wacko)
Wes Struebing
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
str...@carpedementem.org
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Wesley Struebing
Owned it when I was a mere sprite. Who knows what ever happened to
it? (dang)
Wesley Struebing
wrote:
>s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah) wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>A SF story: "City of Glass"
>Possibly the only copy in existance outside of the LOC.
>Probably the very *first* SF story to examine the time-dilation
>effects of going close to the speed of light.
>
>It might not be; but I haven't heard of any earlier ones.
>It also was a very early book detailing possible ecological disaster
>if the world wagged on in it's present manner.
>
>It was written during the war years on old pulp paper; and is as
>fragile as an eggshell.
>
'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
Room Enough."
(hah - got ya on that reference, now - admit it!)
Sea Wasp
>
> Sea Wasp wrote:
> > Sarah wrote:
> >
> >>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> >>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> >>here......
> >>
> >
> >
> > An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
> >
> > An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
> > Conspiracy".
>
> "I have that in hardback, courtesy of a friend who was trying to sell
> his entire collection of Science Fiction Book Club volumes several years
> ago (I adopted all the ones that didn't sell)"
You're the first other person I've encountered who knew it. A shame --
I find it very interesting, and wonder if Carr wrote other things in the
same setting. I had to write the entire entry for it in the ISFDB.
--
Sea Wasp
/^\
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Sea Wasp
>
> Sea Wasp <sea...@wizvax.net> wrote:
>
> >Sarah wrote:
> >>
> >> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> >> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> >> here......
> >>
> >
> > An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
> >
> > An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
> >Conspiracy".
> >
> I think I've got a copy of that one.
TWO people on this group. When I mentioned it the last several times on
r.a.sf.w, no one even admitted to KNOWING it.
>
> > The three-volume edition of "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by
> >Bruce Halstead.
This one I can be pretty confident no one will match.
Sea Wasp
>
> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Sarah wrote:
>
> > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
> >
> Well, excluding a very old and tattered dictionary with many useful
> appendices, the most likely to be unique book I have is the 25th
> Anniversary hardcover edition of GURPS: Traveller (signed by Steve
> Jackson. A birthday gift.)
Well, if I include RPG books...
"Rivals of Esthedil", a Primal Order module written by Nigel Findlay.
Never actually published; I have a playtest copy.
My playtest copies of the D&D3e rules (significantly different in
some areas from the final version)
"Unorthodox Strategies", my own Primal Order supplement --
contracted, paid for, never published.
Original playtest copy of The Primal Order.
Old copy of The Arcanum.
"INFINITY", an early-80s RPG which no one I've ever met has even heard
of, let alone owned.
Sea Wasp
> 'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
> Room Enough."
Is that one unusual? I have that one and a whole bunch more of the
same general era.
summerlady
"Wesley Struebing" <str...@carpedementem.org> wrote in message
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: On Mon, 05 May 2003 16:11:55 GMT, "summerlady"
: <summerladyv@*x*att.net> wrote:
:
: > <snipped>
: >"Rev. Melissa Robitille" <robi...@together.net> wrote in message
: >news:b95vv4$g0vt8$1...@ID-120342.news.dfncis.de...
: >: I have a wide variety of children's literature, some favorites being
: >: Margaret Sidney's Famous Peppers books - 'Five Little Peppers and How
They
: >: Grey', 'Five Little Peppers Midway', etc. - and I'm *looking* for other
: >: similar children's lit series books from around that time period (
: >: 1880-1900 ), so who knows, I might just find them! I'll have to go and
: >: browse over at The Antiquarian Muse again sometime soon...
: >
: >Oh wow! I LOVE "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"....
:
: Owned it when I was a mere sprite. Who knows what ever happened to
: it? (dang)
Same here, I wonder where a bunch of my old books have gotten to.... I blame
the sibs.... ;)
John Vinson
wrote:
>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
A couple:
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, the complete Burton
translation with the complete Burton notes, the Terminal Essay, a
complete index and 1001 decorations by Valenti Angelo; in six volumes,
Heritage Press, copyright 1934
Charles Dickens, the complete works, Charleton's illustrated edition;
in 15 volumes, original price $1.50 per volume (shipping included).
Published MDCCCLXXXI. In the original binding, excellent condition.
John the Wysard jvinson *at* WysardOfInfo *dot* com
Frank McCoy
>Frank McCoy wrote:
>>
>> Sea Wasp <sea...@wizvax.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Sarah wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>> >> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>> >> here......
>> >>
>> >
>> > An old Caxton Press edition of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
>> >
>> > An old paperback SF novel by John F. Carr titled "The Ophidian
>> >Conspiracy".
>> >
>> I think I've got a copy of that one.
>
> TWO people on this group. When I mentioned it the last several times on
>r.a.sf.w, no one even admitted to KNOWING it.
>
My mother started collecting paperbacks long before I did.
I inherited most of them when she ran out of space.
Sadly the majority of *her* original collection got lost in the fire.
The story *she* wrote, OTOH, survived the fire ... but didn't survive
the chickens. Damn. I remember my surprise to find she was an author
... unpublished, but an author ... And I rate HER story, "The Coming
of Darkness" among the top of those stories of the day. A wonderful
story of heroism and hope: Where a disease got out-of-hand. The
problem was, it attacked the optic-nerve of almost all living things;
and (of course) the very people who's duty it was to "look into such
matters" were the first to be unable to look into anything. This was
back in the 1940s, before biohazard suits and modern containment
methods. Ah well. Gone forever now. ;-{
As for "The Ophidian Conspiracy" ... I think I picked up THAT one
myself ... in a used book store.
>>
>> > The three-volume edition of "Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals" by
>> >Bruce Halstead.
>
> This one I can be pretty confident no one will match.
Never heard of it. Of course, it's not the kind I usually reference.
Frank McCoy
Thanks.
Perhaps it's in better condition that that poor old paperback of mine.
Frank McCoy
>On Mon, 05 May 2003 10:42:17 -0500, Frank McCoy <mcc...@millcomm.com>
>wrote:
>
>>s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah) wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>A SF story: "City of Glass"
>>Possibly the only copy in existance outside of the LOC.
>>Probably the very *first* SF story to examine the time-dilation
>>effects of going close to the speed of light.
>>
>>It might not be; but I haven't heard of any earlier ones.
>>It also was a very early book detailing possible ecological disaster
>>if the world wagged on in it's present manner.
>>
>>It was written during the war years on old pulp paper; and is as
>>fragile as an eggshell.
>>
>'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
>Room Enough."
>
>(hah - got ya on that reference, now - admit it!)
Not really.
I've read it ... But sadly don't think I have a copy.
Though ... I just might, too.
Gimme the author, and I'll check through the portion of my library I
have sorted.
Frank McCoy
>On Mon, 05 May 2003 10:42:17 -0500, Frank McCoy <mcc...@millcomm.com>
>wrote:
>
>>s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah) wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>A SF story: "City of Glass"
>>Possibly the only copy in existance outside of the LOC.
>>Probably the very *first* SF story to examine the time-dilation
>>effects of going close to the speed of light.
>>
>>It might not be; but I haven't heard of any earlier ones.
>>It also was a very early book detailing possible ecological disaster
>>if the world wagged on in it's present manner.
>>
>>It was written during the war years on old pulp paper; and is as
>>fragile as an eggshell.
>>
>'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
>Room Enough."
>
>(hah - got ya on that reference, now - admit it!)
Back at you:
How about: "City at World's End"
If you've read it, then the phrase, "Middletown Calling!" will mean
something to you. It's the same era as COG.
Frank McCoy
>> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you
>> have in your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone
>> else here......
>
>"Soviet Science Fiction" and "More Soviet Science Fiction," with
>introductions by Isaac Asimov (Collier Books, 1962). First edition
>paperbacks.
>
>When I first got them, my father wanted me to get rid of them for fear
>someone would notice them on my shelf and think we were communist
>sympathizers. I kid you not.
Only saw *those* two in a library.
Think I only read one of the two.
TBird
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
> d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> French, German and English.
>
> Cheers
> Sarah
I will fall down in convulsions if anyone else has
"Thoughts and Dreams Remembered" a poetry anthology published in 1998 by the
Poetry Guild.
IF someone should have it, I'm on page 246.
I'd also be surprised if anyone else here has "Warrior Marks", a
collaboration with Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar. I quote it all the
time, and have never run into anyone who has this book.
Or "Managing the Whirlwind" by Michael H. Annison. (that would be my
brother)
"The Man Outside" by Wolfgang Borchert
An autographed copy of "Chosen Poems - Old and New" by Audre Lorde (complete
with her phone number. I think I was trying to organize a Women's Center in
Boulder at the time - a really bad idea, I discovered the hard way. But she
was very proud of me for putting in the effort to change the world instead
of watching it all go by.)
"Kaffir Boy" by Mark Mathabane
"Sita" by Kate Millet
TBird <---- knows Cerval has the same Love and Logic books by Jim Faye and
Foster Cline, so I won't go there....
Kenora Sorgenfrie
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
I have a first edition copy of The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
(she who wrote Nancy Drew.)
It's copyright 1930, and has an interesting addition to the title
page:
"This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full
compliance with governmental regulations for the conservation of paper
and other essential materials, is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED."
I read this copy soon after I bought it, then re-read the copy I had
from the 1970's - and was amazed at how many things had been changed.
The Nancy of the '70's was a real lightweight compared to the '30's
Nancy. The '30's Nancy found her own cases, for one, while the '70's
Nancy got most of her cases from her father. The '30's Nancy had a
g*n, for another. (That's all I remember offhand.)
At the same time I found this book, I picked up a copy of Uncle Remus
by Joel Chandler Harris. The latest copyright date in it is 1921.
The pages in both books are extremely yellow, such that I hesitate to
read them, but it is fun to have them.
Kenora
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> "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
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> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
> >
> > d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> > Francon and Jean Claude
> > Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> > photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> > assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> > French, German and English.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sarah
>
> Perhaps "English and Scottish Folk Ballads", circa 1850, or my copy of
> Sandman #50 signed by Neil Gaiman.
I have the folk ballards [well, technically it's my beloveds, I can't carry
a tune in bucket!] I had the opertunity to get *something* signed by Neil
Gaiman since I caught him on a signing tour. but Snadman isn't a fav of
mine.
> Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig,
personally
> autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
Pfft! anybody who's anybody in the occult has one of those ! He used to hand
them out as party favours. How about an autographed "Book of the Slimy".
[*grin*]
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> On 4 May 2003 20:02:14 -0700, s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah)
> wrote:
>
> >In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> >your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> >here......
>
> A couple:
>
> The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, the complete Burton
> translation with the complete Burton notes, the Terminal Essay, a
> complete index and 1001 decorations by Valenti Angelo; in six volumes,
> Heritage Press, copyright 1934
>
<SWOON>
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>
> "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
> > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
> >
> > My entry is the Atlas optischer Erscheinungen = Atlas de phenomenes
> > d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> > Francon and Jean Claude
> > Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> > photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> > assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> > French, German and English.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sarah
>
> I will fall down in convulsions if anyone else has
> "Thoughts and Dreams Remembered" a poetry anthology published in 1998 by
the
> Poetry Guild.
(...)
> "Sita" by Kate Millet
>
I used to know someone that had that, does it rate a teeny-weeny
convulsion on your part? ;-)
Getting into this late, but okay, I'll play. My mode is obscurity, not
valuable editions.
Muhyiddin ibn al-'Arabi, "Treatise on the Unity", in Spanish
translation.
John Barnstead
: In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
: your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
: here......
"I would imagine that the vast majority of my books are *very* unlikely to
be held by any other member of the Patronage-at-Large," remarks Pernicious
the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat's faithful amanuensis and general
factotum. "However, there is *one* that I am *certain* no one else
has..." -- and he reaches into the capacious pocket of his overcoat to
pull out a slim volume bound in black paper splashed with gold. "This is
a unique copy of Mikhail Kuzmin's book of poems Parabolas/Parables, set
and hand-bound by the lovely Cootessa, our very own Jezebel, and presented
to me at the Seattle Callahanicon. I shall treasure it always..."
Dominic
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(the Marvel Comics edition with the holographic foil-stamped wraparound
cover).
-D
Denny Wheeler
<summerladyv@*x*att.net> wrote:
>By Bruce Catton:
>"A Stillness At Appomattox"
>"Mr. Lincoln's Army"
>"Glory Road"
>All three are bound in leather,
I used to have those. Not in leather, though.
Good stuff.
--
-denny-
"I don't like it when a whole state starts
acting like a marital aid."
"John R. Campbell" in a Usenet post.
Jerry
> On 4 May 2003 20:02:14 -0700, s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah)
> wrote:
> >In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> >your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> >here......
>
> I have a first edition copy of The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
> (she who wrote Nancy Drew.)
>
> It's copyright 1930, and has an interesting addition to the title
> page:
>
> "This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full
> compliance with governmental regulations for the conservation of paper
> and other essential materials, is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED."
>
That makes it an early to mid 1940s edition. My mom kept a lot of the
books she read growing up, including a dozen or so Nancy Drew and Kay
Tracey mysteries. Sadly, they were lost when my sister's house burnt
down a decade ago.
> I read this copy soon after I bought it, then re-read the copy I had
> from the 1970's - and was amazed at how many things had been changed.
> The Nancy of the '70's was a real lightweight compared to the '30's
> Nancy. The '30's Nancy found her own cases, for one, while the '70's
> Nancy got most of her cases from her father. The '30's Nancy had a
> g*n, for another. (That's all I remember offhand.)
And by the time the 50s rolled around, it was awfully hard to jump onto
a moving car by leaping onto the running boards. <g>
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Jerry
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
Culture methods for Invertabrate Animals. 1937. Everything you ever
wanted know about raising the spineless, from amoebas to sl*gs to
<insert DCJOYC[1] here>.
[1] Despised Class Joke of Your Choice
Matthew Russotto
Kenora Sorgenfrie <ksorg...@rogers.com> wrote:
>On 4 May 2003 20:02:14 -0700, s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah)
>wrote:
>>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>>here......
>
>I have a first edition copy of The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene
>(she who wrote Nancy Drew.)
A "house name" rather than a real person, I think.
--
Matthew T. Russotto mrus...@speakeasy.net
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.
Prophet
> 'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
> Room Enough."
>
> (hah - got ya on that reference, now - admit it!)
> --
Well, I got the Niven/Garret reference, but miss the connection.
S D
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
> My entry is the Atlas optischer Erscheinungen = Atlas de phenomenes
> d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> French, German and English.
>
> Cheers
> Sarah
It may not be unique here, but I have The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash,
printed 1962, a paperback by Pocket Books (the Giant Cardinal edition).
It is a reprint of the Little, Brown hardcover edition.
Somewhat more unique is *Boners*, pocket size hardcover printed 1931 by
Viking Press. It is a collection of "Howlers taken from classrooms and
examination papers"
S D
--
Solomon had 300 wives and 700 porcupines.
"Boners"
Larisa
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
A really old Russian translation of "Alice in Wonderland" that I've
owned since I was a child. Actually, many of my Russian books are
unlikely to be owned by anyone else here, just because they're in
Russian.
An excellent textbook of Sanskrit, written in Russian. (no, I haven't
learned Sanskrit... yet) I figure that's weird enough that most
people would be quite unlikely to own that.
Not sure if my pocket edition of the complete works of Dante in the
original Italian, or the pocket edition of the complete poems of
Poliziano, also in the original Italian, qualifies. Also, does any of
the Patrons own the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini in the
original?
LM
Wesley Struebing
>Wesley Struebing wrote:
>
>> 'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
>> Room Enough."
>
> Is that one unusual? I have that one and a whole bunch more of the
>same general era.
Hmm. Maybe not, but you're the first person to whom I've mentioned
the name wh actually not only remembers it, but owns it.
Good on you! and "Happy Goldfish bowl, gentlemen"
<G>
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Wes Struebing
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Wesley Struebing
wrote:
>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Wesley Struebing wrote:
>
>> 'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
>> Room Enough."
>>
>> (hah - got ya on that reference, now - admit it!)
>> --
> Well, I got the Niven/Garret reference, but miss the connection.
>
Close, prophet. The author of the collection was indeed immortalized
by Niven in "The Flying Sorcerers", translated "As I Mauve". That's
the connection - just the name.
Wesley Struebing
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>> On 4 May 2003 20:02:14 -0700, s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Sarah)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>> >your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>> >here......
>>
>> A couple:
>>
>> The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, the complete Burton
>> translation with the complete Burton notes, the Terminal Essay, a
>> complete index and 1001 decorations by Valenti Angelo; in six volumes,
>> Heritage Press, copyright 1934
>>
>
> <SWOON>
Y'know - I *hate* people like that!
<very big grin>
Indiana Joe
<s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
Let's see... what have I got?
_Tales of the Unexpected_, H.G. Wells (no date)
_Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
_Last and First Men_, W. Olaf Stapeldon (1931, second edition)
_The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell Jr. (first edition?)
And last (and perhaps the rarest in this crowd):
_Farm Shop Skills in Mechanized Agriculture_ , Sampson, Mowery, and
Kugler (1955)
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TBird
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> > "Sarah" <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message
> > news:c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com...
> > > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > > here......
> >
> > I will fall down in convulsions if anyone else has
> > "Thoughts and Dreams Remembered" a poetry anthology published in 1998 by
> the
> > Poetry Guild.
>
> (...)
>
> > "Sita" by Kate Millet
> >
>
> I used to know someone that had that, does it rate a teeny-weeny
> convulsion on your part? ;-)
Eep!
TBird <--- how's that? ;-)
Linda Scheimann
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> In article <c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com>, Sarah
> <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
>
> Let's see... what have I got?
>
> _Tales of the Unexpected_, H.G. Wells (no date)
> _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
> _Last and First Men_, W. Olaf Stapeldon (1931, second edition)
> _The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell Jr. (first edition?)
>
> And last (and perhaps the rarest in this crowd):
> _Farm Shop Skills in Mechanized Agriculture_ , Sampson, Mowery, and
Berrigan and Coles, conversation around 1971. Navy blue cover.
TBird
edition Nancy Drews at a garage sale in Massachusetts for .25 each, and gave
them to my Mom for her birthday - as her Mom had thrown hers away.
Sadly, my brother saw fit to put them in the donation box when Mom died, and
I was too distracted to catch it.
TBird <---- painful memories
"Kenora Sorgenfrie" <ksorg...@rogers.com> wrote in message
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Pat Kight
Jez smiles and blushes. "You know, John, I've learned *so* much more
about bookbinding since I gave you that ... if it falls apart (as I
suspect it may) please let me know so I can rebind it for you!"
--
Jezebel
proud owner of a working, cast-iron book press, circa 1880...
kig...@peak.org
Frank McCoy
>In article <c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com>, Sarah
><s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>> here......
>
> Let's see... what have I got?
>
> _Tales of the Unexpected_, H.G. Wells (no date)
> _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
> _Last and First Men_, W. Olaf Stapeldon (1931, second edition)
> _The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell Jr. (first edition?)
>
I've got that. Not first-Edition though.
Paperback. VERY beat up.
> And last (and perhaps the rarest in this crowd):
> _Farm Shop Skills in Mechanized Agriculture_ , Sampson, Mowery, and
>Kugler (1955)
--
David C Pugh
news:8mjgbvkmrdot847u0...@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 06 May 2003 01:10:38 GMT, Sea Wasp <sea...@wizvax.net> wrote:
>
> >Wesley Struebing wrote:
> >
> >> 'Nuther SF, and early As a Shade of Purple-Gray collection - "Earth is
> >> Room Enough."
> >
> > Is that one unusual? I have that one and a whole bunch more of the
> >same general era.
>
> Hmm. Maybe not, but you're the first person to whom I've mentioned
> the name wh actually not only remembers it, but owns it.
>
> Good on you! and "Happy Goldfish bowl, gentlemen"
>
Hmmm, the title doesn't say anything to me, but I remember a SF story
that had the above as its punchline. :-)
David C Pugh
> <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > here......
>
> Let's see... what have I got?
>
> _Tales of the Unexpected_, H.G. Wells (no date)
> _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
> _Last and First Men_, W. Olaf Stapeldon (1931, second edition)
> _The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell Jr. (first edition?)
>
OoooOoooOoooo, a Cabell fan?????
Indiana Joe
<davi...@online.no> wrote:
> "Indiana Joe" <jr...@cox.net> wrote in message
> > _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
> OoooOoooOoooo, a Cabell fan?????
Alas, my only work by him at present, and unread. It was a Yule gift
from Leigh last year, and it hasn't made it to the top of the reading
pile yet.
denaldo
>
> "Dominic" <paladinf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:b95jcm$fhon5$1...@ID-162141.news.dfncis.de...
> > Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig,
> personally
> > autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
>
> Pfft! anybody who's anybody in the occult has one of those ! He used to hand
> them out as party favours.
> [*grin*]
Oh yeah, but I still prefer to use Abdul's much more accessible
paperback, "Evoking the Elder Gods for Dummies".
--
My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
Send POINTless responses to den...@ePOINTv1.net
David C Pugh
> In article <uL2ua.10243$8g5.1...@news2.e.nsc.no>, David C Pugh
> <davi...@online.no> wrote:
>
> > "Indiana Joe" <jr...@cox.net> wrote in message
> > > _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
>
> > OoooOoooOoooo, a Cabell fan?????
>
> Alas, my only work by him at present, and unread. It was a Yule gift
> from Leigh last year, and it hasn't made it to the top of the reading
> pile yet.
Well, let me know if you like him. He's very different from just about
anyone else, especially for his epoch -- much more cynical than Terry
Pratchett :-)
"Figures of Earth" is the first of a loose trilogy, followed by "The
Silver Stallion" and "Jurgen", the latter being banned for obscenity in its
time.
So Leigh is the fan? A person of taste.
Dominic
<denaldo> wrote in message news:3EB8E3E8...@ev1.net...
To be used with caution. As a neophyte, I attempted a tricky spell from
Chapter 7 and ended up mistakenly summoning a goat with a thousand
young.....Have you ever tried to clean up after 1001 goats?
-D
Marten Kemp
>
> Silicon Shaman wrote:
> >
> > "Dominic" <paladinf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:b95jcm$fhon5$1...@ID-162141.news.dfncis.de...
>
> > > Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig,
> > personally
> > > autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
> >
> > Pfft! anybody who's anybody in the occult has one of those ! He used to hand
> > them out as party favours.
> > [*grin*]
>
> Oh yeah, but I still prefer to use Abdul's much more accessible
> paperback, "Evoking the Elder Gods for Dummies".
Subtitled "How to Avoid Being Eaten by Things You Summon?"
-- Marten Kemp
Silicon Shaman
<denaldo> wrote in message news:3EB8E3E8...@ev1.net...
Not to be picky, but that's "Invoking". Spelling's kinda an important point
when summoning Eldritch Elder Gods. They tend to be cranky, especially
before the first coffee.
But then again, there's always "The Idiots Guide to Demonology"... Where a
knowledge of geometry is always useful. [ "D'oh, how many sides should this
star have?" ]
--
Silicon.shaman
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Dominic
"Marten Kemp" <marte...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Never mind being eaten....I'd like something to eat these bloody goats! I'm
hip deep in goat droppings and they've snacked on everything from the hall
carpet to my priceless collection of gas station wall calendars....I'll
never find another Irving Mainway 1983 again!
-D
Dominic
"Silicon Shaman" <Silicon...@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:b9b4v6$62i$1...@titan.btinternet.com...
denaldo
>
> <denaldo> wrote in message news:3EB8E3E8...@ev1.net...
> > Silicon Shaman wrote:
> > >
> > > "Dominic" <paladinf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:b95jcm$fhon5$1...@ID-162141.news.dfncis.de...
> >
> > > > Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig,
> > > personally
> > > > autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
> > >
> > > Pfft! anybody who's anybody in the occult has one of those ! He used to
> hand
> > > them out as party favours.
> > > [*grin*]
> >
> > Oh yeah, but I still prefer to use Abdul's much more accessible
> > paperback, "Evoking the Elder Gods for Dummies".
> >
> > --
> > My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
> > Send POINTless responses to den...@ePOINTv1.net
>
> Not to be picky, but that's "Invoking". Spelling's kinda an important point
> when summoning Eldritch Elder Gods. They tend to be cranky, especially
> before the first coffee.
D'oh. Well that certainly explains these horns, hoofs, and hair,
as well as the reason I have this strong urge to go over to
Dominic's house and eat 'dates'.
John Vinson
<paladinf...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
><denaldo> wrote in message news:3EB8E3E8...@ev1.net...
>> Silicon Shaman wrote:
>> >
>> > "Dominic" <paladinf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:b95jcm$fhon5$1...@ID-162141.news.dfncis.de...
>>
>> > > Or, I could say my first edition Necronomicon, bound in long pig,
>> > personally
>> > > autographed to me by Abdul Alhazred (heh).
>> >
>> > Pfft! anybody who's anybody in the occult has one of those ! He used to
>hand
>> > them out as party favours.
>> > [*grin*]
>>
>> Oh yeah, but I still prefer to use Abdul's much more accessible
>> paperback, "Evoking the Elder Gods for Dummies".
"Someone should provide copies of that book to the members of
Congress, just to prevent unfortunate incidents. Just imagine a
congressman trying to get the attention of the Speaker of the House,
shouting 'Hastert! Hastert! Hastert!'"
"Of course, with Congress as it is right now, maybe nobody would even
notice the new member..."
>> --
>> My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
>> Send POINTless responses to den...@ePOINTv1.net
>
>To be used with caution. As a neophyte, I attempted a tricky spell from
>Chapter 7 and ended up mistakenly summoning a goat with a thousand
>young.....Have you ever tried to clean up after 1001 goats?
"But... were they Dalmatian goats?"
John the Wysard jvinson *at* WysardOfInfo *dot* com
Dominic
<denaldo> wrote in message news:3EB9241F...@ev1.net...
Don't have any dates. You're welcome to come eat some of these goats, if
you want....I understand they're good with cream cheese dip. Except the
hooves; they're hard to chew.
-D
Dominic
Except for the undead ones. They just stand there giving me this....look.
Don't like it one bit, that look.
-D
Leigh Claffey
With his luck they probably ate the book first....
--Leigh
Bookwyrm
> In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
> d'optique = Atlas of optical phenomena by Michel Cagnet, Maurice
> Francon and Jean Claude
> Thrierr, which is a beautiful, large slim hardbacked book containing
> photographs of various reflection, refraction, diffraction, and
> assorted optical aberations. And yes, the whole book is written in
> French, German and English.
>
> Cheers
> Sarah
More than a day late on this, but...
an undated, paperbound copy of "Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk of the
Hotel Dieu convent of Montreal: The secrets of the black nunnery
revealed" New Edition.
Found in a HalfPrice Books store a couple of years ago for $2.98.
Bookwyrm
Silicon Shaman
Just be thankful it's goats you got. I know someone that botched that spell,
he got stoats. Thousands of the squirmy little fuzzy blighters all over the
place getting in everywhere [and I mean *everywhere*]
On the other hand, they were weasel-ly removed.
Have you tried giving goatsbusters a call ? [Who you gonna call,
goatsbusters !]
--
Silicon.shaman
Being sane in this insane world makes you look crazy.
Bob Gilbert
>In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>here......
Royal Edition
Literature and Art
The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopędia of Universal Authorship
The Masterpieces of the standard writers of all nations and all time
Edited with biographical and critical notes by Ainsworth R. Spofford,
Librarian of Congress and Charles Gibbon, Author of "Robin Gray," etc.
Illustrated by the best artists of all countries
100 Photogravures forming a comprehensive gallery of modern art
One Thousand Copies only of this Royal Edition have been printed for sale,
each of which will be numbered.
Copyrighted 1890 by Gebbie & Co., Publishers of Philadelphia.
---------------
I own the complete ten volume set each numbered 256.
I bought them in 1966 at a library sale in Plattsmouth NB for ten cents
each.
Staffwalker
Prophet
> > And last (and perhaps the rarest in this crowd):
> > _Farm Shop Skills in Mechanized Agriculture_ , Sampson, Mowery, and
> >Kugler (1955)
>
Hmmm, I'd almost be willing to bet our university library has or had a
copy of that one - we *were* an agricultural college before they started
adding all the other sciences and liberal arts and stuff.
Marc C Allain http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mca
Native American Cultural Association. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mca/naca.html
Mein Gedanken Sind Frei!
Peter Gregg
in
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
>
My claim to fame would be:
"Comparisons of distance, size, area, volume, mass, weight, density,
energy, temperature, time, spead and number throughout the universe"
by the Diagram Group
Not a readers book but fascinating.
Peter Gregg
Sarah
> "Indiana Joe" <jr...@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:060520032104451586%jr...@cox.net...
> > In article <c62fb47c.0305...@posting.google.com>, Sarah
> > <s.wh...@phys.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > In the spirit of the other book-brag threads, what book do you have in
> > > your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> > > here......
> >
> > Let's see... what have I got?
> >
> > _Tales of the Unexpected_, H.G. Wells (no date)
> > _Figures of Earth_, James Cabell (1926)
> > _Last and First Men_, W. Olaf Stapeldon (1931, second edition)
> > _The Mightiest Machine_, John W. Campbell Jr. (first edition?)
> >
>
> OoooOoooOoooo, a Cabell fan?????
Strange - this thread has come full circle for me. I bought the book I
mentioned earlier - the Atlas of Optical Effects, because it has some
of the best Foucault test photographs in it I have ever seen. The
Foucault test is used by amateur telescope makers to observe (and
hopefully correct) defects in the primary mirrors of telescopes. Now
the man who taught me to make telescopes and to do this test also
introduced me to the works of James Branch Cabell. Cool.
Cheers
Sarah
Warren Senders
>>>your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
>>>here......
A number of years ago I wrote a description
of a book in my library for a thread in
rec.music.indian.classical, and I append
it here:
"In a book published sometime in the late 70s,
Tribhuvan Kapur strikes a new note
in academic research, combining inutterably
tedious sociology (sentences in 3rd-
person passive voice, ponderous syntax, jargon-laden
phrases, etc., etc. ad infinauseum)
with soft-core pornography.
This tome, tantalizingly entitled "Hippies: A
Study of Their Drug Habits and Sexual
Customs," appears to be a master's or doctoral
thesis from an Indian university. I found
my copy at the block-long used-book sale that
runs continually near Churchgate in Bombay;
suspecting a fabulous period piece, I snapped it
up at a mere Rs. 125. The title page
and publisher's information are missing in my
copy, so I cannot give copyright date, but
the most recent book in the bibliography is dated
1978, so draw your own conclusions."
It is hilarious. Excerpts will be provided on request.
Other oddities in my library include 8 or 9 Horatio Algers,
a complete set of Arthur Train's "Mr. Tutt" books (an Edwardian
Perry Mason, and a sheer delight), a phrenology textbook,
and a book titled "The Jew's Harp," which I purchased primarily
because the author bio on the back cover was so fantastic. I
append it herewith:
"Leonard Fox began studying music at the age of four and developed
a fascination with the Jew's harp when he was ten years old. After
majoring in Ancient Greek in college and completing his graduate
studies at Columbia University, he taught linguistics and Sanskrit
for several years at New York University. The offer of a position as
a Georgian language specialist in Munich permitted him library
access to a number of works on the Jew's harp that had been unavailable
in the United States and, struck by the lack of a single book that would
provide a comprehensive treatment of the instrument, he compiled this
volume.
"As a professional translator, the author is currently engaged in two
projects: an anthology of traditional Malagasy poetry...and a translation
of the *Kanun* of Leke Dukagjini, the five-hundred-year-old code of
Albanian customary law. He has recently completed translating an
anthology of poetry by the Albanian scholar and writer, Martin Camaj."
Well! This was clearly someone who deserved my support...so I bought
the book.
There are probably more weird ones on the shelves, but I'm tired and
I'm going to bed instead.
Cheers,
Warren (who has been unanouncedly ABEND for several weeks due
to overwhelming home-renovation exigencies)
Aerlinn
> your collection that you think may be not owned by anyone else
> here......
With apologies, I'm going to assume that there's an (s) after the word book
up there.
_Touching the Shadows: A Love Tested and Renewed_, by Bruce Nygren.
An absolutely heartrending and lifechanging portrayal of real love, of
testing and trial, of the inexplicable way that even something as terrible
as cancer can have the power to solidify love instead of destroying it.
from the book: "Help was on the way, but not as I envisioned. Hidden in
shadows an evil intruder lurked, posed to ravage our snug comfort. But in a
horrible yet beautiful irony, this visitor, intent on destruction, was
destined to become just another servant in love's employ." Bruce Nygren
_An Underground Education: The unauthorized and outrageous supplement to
everything you thought you knew about art, sex, business, crime, science,
medicine, and other fields of human knowledge_," by Richard Zacks.
This is a very interesting book that showcases some lesser-known or
completely unknown true historical accounts on a variety of subjects. Talks
about everything from Benjamin Franklin's fart experiment to some of the
more ridiculous men's fashions at the height of the Elizabeathan era.
_The Odd Index: The Ultimate Compendium of Bizarre and Unusual Facts_, by
Stephen J. Spignesi.
Everything from "329 Real Strange Names" (Positive Wasserman, Vomita Willis,
anyone?) to "The 26 Stages of Deterioration a Corpse Goes Through from the
Moment of Death On."
Well, you did ask!
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>It is hilarious. Excerpts will be provided on request.
Request!
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