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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
  • Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT)

Poe's Armchair ? ;-) Books are easily authenticated, but how in the world
did they authenticate the armchairm of a man who died drunk and penniless on
a baltimore streetside?

Shape notes. That's how Mother mabele taughter the Carter sisters to read
music.....

Houdini, early magicians have monied cult followings.

I've talked my way into visiting a stack or two similar to what you describe.

I owned a whole box of errol flynn's letter to (can't remember , now, 'sold
them too d*man cheap, too).

I have western ephemera that I've never seen anything else like ( insane
asylum admission papers from Oregon from 1890's --a man could lock up his
wife or daughter for misbehavin :-0 . Pay-slip from turn of the centry
nevada made out to chinamen signed (endorsed ) with an 'X". (they made them
"print" their names in chinese characters, but then sign with an "X", like
they were illiterate....

Somewhere, I have an early 18th century handwritten will from New England,
The man left his son land and animals. Left his daughter bunch of animals;
left his wife one pig, because she had left his bed xx years before. What a
hoot.

I'll bet the curator that bought the poe chair bought G. Washington's axe ,
too. Of course the head had been replaced twice, and the handle, thrice ....
:-) ....bobford

p.s. I always liked steinbeck. I like the extra-wordy word pictures he
sometimes used. I'm trying to place that library -- but you've described
east coast-- west coast


--- On Sun, 10/26/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 4:30 PM
> In my early life, during grad school, I worked for a rare
> books library for a couple of years. It was a surreal
> experience. During that time I helped catalog shaped note
> hymnals, make archival copies of early jazz recordings,
> and oddly, proofread LOC cards for the multitude versions
> of Steinbeck books translated into Turkish. In those days,
> as an insider, one was allowed to roam the stacks and
> check out anything for perusal at one's desk. I saw a
> lot
> of the medieval books with original bindings as you
> describe. I read the handwritten notes in Houdini's
> personal collection, held Ravel scores, touched Poe's
> armchair, etc. I understand the stacks are now closed to
> the librarians. What a pity, the adventure made up for the
> exceedingly low wages.
>
> --Sage
>
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:15:04 -0400
> "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >
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