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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: eureka AT hctc.net
  • Cc: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:46:27 -0700 (PDT)

tex full of rich eccentrics -- Troy v. post and his timepieces ( whatever
happened to those ?). I know nothing of furniture; - first reply was all
with a laugh. You'll have to tell more stories, some time . Most of us
never had such first-hand encounters ....bobford

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--- On Mon, 10/27/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 2:31 PM
> 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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