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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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