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Collector Page for Bill DiBenedetto
Member since 11/2/2005

Location:  Seattle, Washington

Collector Since:  2004
   
Collection Properties

 

Types of ML Books Collected

Regular, with DJ (93)

Regular, no DJ (70)

Giant, with DJ (13)

Giant, no DJ (14)

Buckram (3)

Illustrated/No Cover (2)

College Edition (9)

Other Post 1970 (1)

 

Types of Bindings in Collection

 

 

 

 

Total Titles in Collection: 205  

 

Comments on the Collection

I've been a serious collector for more than year, but I've been acquiring ML editions a long time, probably 25-30 years. My focus is mainly fiction and poetry, some philosphy, some history.

 

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On the More Personal Side...

 

Favorite ML Titles

Disliked ML Titles

The Maltese Falcon

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

In Cold Blood

Crime and Punishment

A High Wind in Jamaica

 

Favorite Dust Jacket: Dracula (1941)

ML Title Currently Reading: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Last ML Title Read: The Turn of the Screw

Personal Comments

Other favorites: All of Conrad, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dickens and Dostoevsky. I recently started a blog in which i vent about a number of subjects, including my adventures in reading and collecting: http://billdee.blogspot.com/

 
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