"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

A book (their third)
about the book trade and book collectors. Some people got WAY too
much
money.

I don't understand book collectors, I know a couple who have bought
books with no intention of reading them, they but them in covers and
let them sit. While not all books are a good read, they were meant to
be read. Not only read, but excepting books on quantum physics,
celeberty biographies, modern politics, and economics, they were meant
to be enjoyed.

who haunts the bargain bins.

I do too. Just so happen that one of my bargain bin finds became the
thing you transported to Jeffie for me.


I thought about becoming a book collector once. Not of rare and unusual
ones, but of ones signed by the author. I imagined having this great old
bookshelf full of autographed books. I used to get some well-known folks on
river trips, so if I knew someone was coming along, I'd take the time to get
one of their books and have them sign it. I'd also peruse bookstores for
signed editions and buy them.

When I left the US a decade ago, I left a bunch of stuff in storage. On a
visit about 5 years ago, I took a box of things to the Salvation Army, and
absentmindedly took a bunch of books to a reseller. Got about $1 each for
them. It wasn't until about a month later that I felt like I'd been kicked
in the gut when I remembered some of the things in that box.....like an
early edition of "Carrie" signed by Stephen King, a copy of "The 10th
Victim" signed by Robert Sheckley and a picture book signed by Bahe
Whitethorne, all with inscriptions to me.

It reminded me of the time I sold an old college textbook back to the campus
bookstore, and a year later remembered that I had hidden a $100 bill inside
it for 'safekeeping'. Some lucky freshman was WAY psyched when they reached
Chapter 4....

--riverman