Thread Name: Great finds From: "Morris, Terry" <Terry.Morris@removed> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:03:33 -0400 I have been hesitant to share my great finds story's for fear of well...competition but here goes. A dealer I have bought a lot of things from sent me a free flex copy of the Autobiography of Cellini with the gift set dust jacket in beautiful condition. It took a lot of searching but in the end cost me $5 online to find the actual gift set book san DJ, and I'm now the proud owner of the gift Cellini. About a year later I decided to hunt me down another title from the set. It took about 4 months but I found a dealer who was selling the Life of Michel Angelo (as the statue of David in Buffalo NY says) with the right DJ but wrong book - $20 for the DJ - a steal. Oh I took the book too. Then a short time later (weeks) I found a dealer with the right binding but wrong DJ $10 later I now have two titles from a set. All I need now is the Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci for a complete set of the 28 gift set. I have nothing from the 29 set. On this listserv I have previously spoken of the letter a friend found from B Cerf to a certain Charles Abbott. That, of course, was a great find and my friend charge me nothing - which makes it even better. My final great find was from another online dealer who wanted $40 for the flex with near fine DJ of Georges' Progress and Poverty but oddly enough only $8 for the 1926 edition with a slightly problematic DJ of the Art of Aubrey Beardsley. Go Figure... I bought both....I felt bad the dealer seemed to have it so mixed up. But there they are my great finds ------------------------------------- From: Scot Kamins <kamins@removed> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 10:41:42 -0700 Great finds indeed! My greatest find was a 1st edition of Little Women (fine in a near fine DJ) in the children's section of a bookstore in Palo Alto (or was it Menlo Park?) California ten years ago. I paid less than $20 for it. ------------------------------------- From: JPetersonlhi@removed> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:02:01 EDT Two of my three best finds I don't remember, because I didn't know they were good until a year or more after the fact. 1. Madame Bovary Gift Set Edition. I bought this one before I knew there were ML gift sets. But, shortly after Scot started putting DJs on Dogeared, I noticed that the Madame Bovary I had was slightly different than his. In sending a scan of mine I learned about the existence of gift sets. I have no idea where I bought it, or for how much. 2. It was only after I subscribed to ML Collector that I realized I had bought an unstated first of Red Star over China (303 titles on the inside of the fairly good DJ) about a year before, for $8 at a local bookstore, and that it was pretty scarce. Pete Chockoles said in the latest issue that there were only three copies he knew about. This is another. 3. Earlier this year, I found all three volumes of the Great Renaissance Romances from 1929 (baloon cloth) at the same store in DJs that would be VG except for badly darkened spines for $10 each. -------------------------------------