I generally waste a lot of time hanging around second-hand bookstoresand, once in a while, it pays off.
Yesterday, I was into our local bookstore to check on the order of my new book on King Harold (necessary for a story I am writing) and my eye was caught by something VERY nice. I plunked down 10 bucks and I'm STILL snickering to myself.
What I got was a copy, somewhat banged-about and beaten, of LIFE OF GENERAL GORDON (By the Authors o "Our Queen", "New World Heroes" etc). It was printed in London in 1885 by Walter Scott of 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row. The flyleaf title page has been ripped but the inside title page is intact... complete with the original Frontispiece, which is NOT the customary engraving: rather, it is an actual PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT from the original Glass Negative. The detail is just incredible!
Ten bucks.
Just hadta flaunt it.
BTW, I'm not a hunter (no dinosaurs left for us old-timers to shoot) but the same shop also has a selection of very nice older hunting books at reasonable prices. They have a copy of the 1954 reprint of Elmer Keith's 1948 classic BIG GAME HUNTING, which my browser tells me is a $90-or-up book if you can find a copy. Theirs is cheaper or I wouldn't be telling you. Dust-jacket is scruffy and beat but it's there, text is complete, book itself is very nice, lotsa pictures. And they have DALRYMPLE's Complete Guide to Hunting Across North America and several others.
The shop is Echo Books in Virden, but they don't have a website. If you really GOTTA have Elmer's book (which is definitely worth reading) you can e-mail Dana at drross63 at hotmail dot com.
Me, I'm going home now to gloat for a while!
Yesterday, I was into our local bookstore to check on the order of my new book on King Harold (necessary for a story I am writing) and my eye was caught by something VERY nice. I plunked down 10 bucks and I'm STILL snickering to myself.
What I got was a copy, somewhat banged-about and beaten, of LIFE OF GENERAL GORDON (By the Authors o "Our Queen", "New World Heroes" etc). It was printed in London in 1885 by Walter Scott of 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row. The flyleaf title page has been ripped but the inside title page is intact... complete with the original Frontispiece, which is NOT the customary engraving: rather, it is an actual PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT from the original Glass Negative. The detail is just incredible!
Ten bucks.
Just hadta flaunt it.
BTW, I'm not a hunter (no dinosaurs left for us old-timers to shoot) but the same shop also has a selection of very nice older hunting books at reasonable prices. They have a copy of the 1954 reprint of Elmer Keith's 1948 classic BIG GAME HUNTING, which my browser tells me is a $90-or-up book if you can find a copy. Theirs is cheaper or I wouldn't be telling you. Dust-jacket is scruffy and beat but it's there, text is complete, book itself is very nice, lotsa pictures. And they have DALRYMPLE's Complete Guide to Hunting Across North America and several others.
The shop is Echo Books in Virden, but they don't have a website. If you really GOTTA have Elmer's book (which is definitely worth reading) you can e-mail Dana at drross63 at hotmail dot com.
Me, I'm going home now to gloat for a while!
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