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Carcosa
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60 posts		 05-03-12, 11:56 PM (Pacific Time)
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"Hardcover rarities..."
 
   Patience has really proven a virtue recently. For years now, I recently added copies of two LL hardcovers, COMSTOCK LODE and THE CHEROKEE TRAIL, to my collection. These are both unread, very fine copies, both book and DJ. I have waited YEARS to find them at a reasonable price, and they finally showed up. This has perked up my interest in the books again, and am now working to pick up the Dutton books I'm lacking. I have a lot of collectable books, but I am particularly proud of my LL firsts...including the real leather-bound promo hardcovers of ROWDY RIDES TO GLORY and my favorite, YONDERING. I starting buying them as they were published with THE LONESOME GODS as a 20 year old. Now I have 50 staring me down...where have those years gone?


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Carcosa
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1. "RE: Hardcover rarities..."
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   Just a footnote-


I just pulled down my copy of the Bantam 30th anniversary hardcover of HONDO, which I remember buying off the shelf of the bookstore....and am utterly dismayed to realize its the 60th anniversary of that novel now. -sigh-


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Chantry
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2. "RE: Hardcover rarities..."
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   I've been collecting the leatherette editions for about sixteen years now. I now have 107 of the 129. I just found 19 at a bookstorei in Spokane while on vacation there.

My list is starting to get more difficult as these are the rarer ones. I'm thinking the Collected Short Stories and Rowdy aren't going to show up anythime soon in a used bookstore.


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TOM
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3. "RE: Hardcover rarities..."
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   Your best bet on finding the harder to find ones are on ebay.

TOM


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Chantry
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4. "RE: Hardcover rarities..."
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   I'm trying to stay away from eBay and Amazon, hoping to just come across them in a used book store or yard sale. I know this is limiting my finds but that's part of the search.

When I get down to 3 or 4 I might change my plan and shop online.


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Les Down Under
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5. "RE: Hardcover rarities..."
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   LAST EDITED ON 05-07-12 AT 00:17 AM (Pacific Time)
 
Check out Guidon Books in Scottsdale AZ and on line (http://www.guidon.com/)I got a lot of mine from there.

Les
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad


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