Best Buy on Ebay?? What have you found?

jjarmstr DeleteThis @starband.net (J.=A0Armstrong) wrote:
Recently purchased first edition of Robert Louis Steveson's The Body
Snatcher plus 6 or 7 other books ... $12.50 Have had a few other good
buys as well.
Other finds?

I've had a few "finds" on ebay of late; I just won an 1856 McLoughlin
Bros edition of Robin Hood and Little John. OCLC shows four copies in
libraries wordwide. From the same seller, I recently won two other
childrens books published by Mcloughlin Bros, the Linen ABC Book, First
Steps, published in 1899, and a One Syllable Primer for Home and School
Use. Another book in the same auction was the Little Folks Edition of
Uncle Tom's Cabin published by Graham & Matlock in New York. I still
need to research the publication dates of the last two books.

One of my ebay winnings today wasn't even a book; I won the armorial
bookplate of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia ($47.99). I guess I'm
a bookplate collector now too.

Another nonbook win recently was an ALS from Harry B. Smith, on his
letterhead, to Walter R. Benjamin, the "Father of Autograph Collecting."
You can view it in My Sentimental Library.

You can also view a "book" from the library of Rod Steiger. Although it
is bound in a spiral notebook, it is really a formal request for an
on-camera interview with Steiger for a documentary, The Titans of
Hollywood, concerning Zukor and Loew, which doesn't appear to have been
completed as yet. A nice find it is, considering all the photos of the
movie stars included in the book.

For my Hawaiian collection, which I don't even have on my website, I
won the auction for Yarns That Came to Port, by Victor Eckland,
Honolulu,1940. This privately printed book consists of tales told by
the crews of ships that came to the port of Honolulu. OCLC shows only
four copies in libraries wordlwide.

Another book on Hawaii that I bought on ebay a couple of months ago led
me to buy a book from L.W. Curry! I enjoyed reading A Month in Honolulu
by Katherine M. Yates published by the Hawaii Tourist Bureau in the
1920s,, and checked to see what else she wrote. L.W. Curry had her book,
A Tale From the Rainbow Land, San Francisco,1914, which is a tale about
the little Minehunes, an "imaginary race" that lives in Hawaii.

I won another book on ebay that was published in San Francisco. It is
the Facsimile Reproduction of Shakespeare's First Folio, containing
reproductions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Anthonie and Cleopatra.
What aroused my curiosity with this book is that it was prepared by the
personal of the Works Project Administarion in 1940. The WPA
publishing Shakespeare? Believe it or not, I discovered that the book
is quite collectible! OCLC shows 28 libraries holding copies, including
Columbia University, Princeton, Brown, Rice, the New York Public Library
and a number of libraries in California.

Heading my way from California are a keepsake on Bibliosophia, a choice
book about books, and the first issue of Genet's Art & Literature
Magazine,1964.

I have another choice book about books that I bought from Oak Koll
Books: the De Vinne Press Office copy of Four Private Libraries of New
York, 1897, by Henri Renee Du Bois. You can view the bookplate of the
De Vinne Press in my Sentimental Library.

Heading my way from New York is an accordian style book written in what
appears to be an oriental language. I haven't a clue what this book is,
but I paid to find out and I will. More to follow on this book later.

Jerry


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