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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:31:17 -0600

The library is on the third coast (Texas)...they own a room full of writer's chairs besides Poe's, undoubtedly authenticated. Also the entire wardrobe from Gone with the Wind, and the oldest photograph. I was working there when Darrell Royal's son swiped the Einstien relativity papers, quite the scandal. It's a very interesting place. Tony Randall was friends with the curator at the time and often came to visit. They have expanded the building since my days and have much more on display. The people who worked there were just as odd and interesting as the collections they tended.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/

--Sage




On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
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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