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Re: RARA-AVIS: Prices, prices, prices
Linda wrote:
>Is this list primarily peopled by collectors? or can any old book lover
>join in?
Anyone can join in, as the list is technically about hardboiled fiction,
not collecting. But back to collections, while I of course love finding
pristine stuff (esp rare with paperbacks), some stuff I have is great
precisely bec. it's beaten. Like, I love that some young kid tried to work
out some math problem on the back of my copy of Day Keene's *Sleep With
the Devil*, or that some books I own were clearly circulated among a
reading group of some sort, as there are comments and ratings written on
the inside. It's cool when a book bears traces of its history.
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Michael D. Sharp, Dept. of English, University of Michigan
(msharp@umich.edu)
On Tue, 6 May 1997 Shabooi@aol.com wrote:
> someone commented:
> << ... for some of us less affluent types ... it's the thrill of the hunt.
>
> I just tuned into this discussion, and it reminded me of 84 Charing Cross
> Road (not exactly hard-boiled), for me (a much less afluent type) books are
> purchased to be read, and none of my books would have any monetary value, but
> they're valuable to me for the content. . . books I found on a particularly
> good book buying day, books with notes made by previous readers, all add to a
> book's value to me.
> Is this list primarily peopled by collectors? or can any old book lover join
> in?
> Linda
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