sandra hess wrote: > > What one book would you love to own (within the category hardboiled/noir) if > price and scarcity were not to be considered? Sometime last year, a bookseller (James Pepper, I think) was offering Roman Polanski's shooting script for _Chinatown_. I suffered a few pangs of covetiveness--but not many, as he was charging $5000 for the piece. But, if price was no object... -- James Stephenson Rare Books & Special Collections Cataloger University of Maryland at College Park Email: js272@umail.umd.edu - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca