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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You can find first printings of Geisel's Dr. Suess stories in women's 
magazines.  the first edition books , fine with fine dj are desirable.  

I like 19th century oversized art books with chromo plates or early volumes 
with hand-painted plates.  I bought a volume off ebay a few years ago from a 
guy in spain, early 19th century, about 40 handpainted plates (nudes), not 
very well done, either.  I paid him $70. 

 I showed it to another collector , here in town, the week I bought it.  She 
oohed and ahhed asked me howw much.  'told her I just got it, and didn't want 
to sell it.  She went home with it, and I blew the $1500 on 
something.....bobf  


--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Old books
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 3:15 PM
> > I do love the beauty in old volumes, the leather,the
> rag paper, the copper
> > engravings and chromolithograths.  But, the ideas -- I
> can find , most ,
> > now, on the internet .  The computer is cheap, and
> takes little space.
> 
> I have several old books, mostly on the early design of the
> reaper and the
> resulting fights over patents and estates.  They are great
> to read and the
> information is often available only in those books.  I have
> an 1892 reprint
> of an 1860s pamphlet that was used to show the inverter of
> the reaper was
> Robert McCormick in the court case against Cyrus
> McCormick's estate.  I also
> have an 1850s book on the Obed Hussey and Bell reapers.  
> 
> I also have some very early copies of both the "ABC
> and XYZ of beekeeping"
> and "The hive and the Honey Bee".  Fascinating
> reading of the knowledge and
> problems of beekeeping around WWI.  The sections on the
> legal problems of
> bees and horses makes you realize that they had a different
> set of
> challenges then.
> 
> I bought them many years ago and some have astounded me in
> their increase in
> value.
> 
> Here in the trailer I have an 1897 copy of Ropp's
> Commercial Calculator.
> http://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/RoppCalc.htm
> 
> While looking for information on the above book I
> discovered that Google has
> copies of the American Bee Journal online.  This 1894 issue
> gives away the
> Ropp's as a premium and has an article on stingless
> bees from Costa Rica.
> Interesting in light of the Africanized Honeybees from
> Brazil.
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=1WZaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA578&lpg=PA578&dq=%22ropp%
> 27s+commercial+calculator%22&source=bl&ots=7EPxJjpCl0&sig=wARkNQDr5g4T_AXRvP
> _RI0rqWhA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result#PPA29,M1
> 
> I have a friend who does high end book binding and
> restoration.  Every time
> I go visit he digs out something for me to see.  One time
> he had a medieval
> chained book.  Another time he had the complete set of
> photographs of the
> front line in October of 1918.  He makes storage boxes for
> rare books and
> one time he showed me a complete set of signed books by Ted
> Geisel.  Mr
> Geisel rarely signed his books, these came from a neighbor
> of his in La
> Jolla.
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html