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Collector Page for Benjamin Clark
Other Collection Categories and Attributes: Catalogs/Brochures; Collect by Binding
I'm still working on a collection focus. I keep thinking 1sts only in DJ VG/VG would be fun, but I get impatient and wind up with either VG/None firsts or VG/VG non-firsts. *Shrug*. I do a lot of "collect and release" and don't feel compelled to own every title all at once. I would like to have owned them all, at one time or another. Like most people, I am trying to get at least one copy of all B&L titles in vg or better B&L bindings. I'm not going to hold my breath for B&L dust jackets, or even VG 1sts. I also like having "representatives" of different variations and oddities in my collection, like buckrams, pirates, British, ephemera etc. I especially like buckrams with clean spines. One of my coolest finds was the Scribner's book for $15 at Larry McMurtry's Booked Up in Archer City, TX. But I also love the matchbook covers I got out of a mixed bag lot of matchbook covers on ebay. I was just browsing and voila, there they were. They're in rough shape, but no one else seems to have these exact ones.
Favorite Dust Jacket: All woodcuts: early '30s and '80s. Last ML Title Read: The Enormous Room How Many Modern Library books have I read?: 9999
I've really enjoyed collecting, reading Modern Library books, and contributing to ModernLib/Dogeared and look forward to contributing what I can here as well! I've just finished reading At Random by Cerf and Dear Donald, Dear Bennett. Both were great. I also recently picked up a thin little book published after Klopfer's death about him. Off the top of my head, it seemed like a small number where printed, but it's a very nice little book.
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