Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Daily Howdy => Topic started by: Stoney on December 05, 2011, 02:41:56 PM
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At our library used book store I found this treasure for $4.00.
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I've been looking for an unabridged Websters Desk Dictionary for a long time. Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.
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>Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.
You can come over and use mine.<g> I do see the two volume set from time to time -- the one that comes with a magnifying glass.
I saved another book yesterday from the recycle bin. (actually four, but this one stands out). A Persian Journey, Being an Etcher's Impressions of the Middle East, by Fred Richards, R.E. I can't believe anyone would send it to recycle! Published in 1931, apparently a first edition, since I found '32 editions for sale. All the firsts I found were bound in read cloth, but this one is full bound in calf. I haven't been able to find a reference to a calf bound edition. It's the kind of binding that is the top of the book binder's art -- the sort one finds on 18th and 19th Century fine books.
I guess it was donated to the library, and the library couldn't use it. The smart folks at the Chino library sell such books through Amazon, where I got my first edition of De Cristoforo's Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone, featuring the ShopSmith ER.
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Read cloth? Is that a bibliophilian slip?
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Going to have to have an unabridged desk to hold it up though.
yours Scott
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Yeah ScottG I thinking maybe a stand made of cross tie cutoffs available at my buddies sawmill. Of course that brings up shoring up the floor etc & etc & etc. My dad and me built a 4 X 10 leather cutting table with cross tie cutoff legs and a 2 X 3 top. When I closed my shop it took 4 200 lb men to put it on the trailer. My boys used to mark everything I made Manufactured by Cleveland Hernia and Truss Co. HaHaHaHa
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Read cloth? Is that a bibliophilian slip?
Fear so. Make that RED cloth.
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Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.
Oxford published (publishes?) a dictionary about the size of your Merriam. The Oxford Universal Dictionary. I found
one of those a while back, and it sits on the shelf next to the 12 volume OED. Makes three feet of dictionary. You can
look up words and get your daily exercise!
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WOW with that, I could give up my Fitness Center membership and exercise my mind and muscles at the same time.
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. A Persian Journey, Being an Etcher's Impressions of the Middle East, by Fred Richards, R.E. I can't believe anyone would send it to recycle! Published in 1931, apparently a first edition, since I found '32 editions for sale. All the firsts I found were bound in read cloth, but this one is full bound in calf. I haven't been able to find a reference to a calf bound edition. It's the kind of binding that is the top of the book binder's art -- the sort one finds on 18th and 19th Century fine books.
Maybe it's an authors copy. Sometimes the publishing company will publish a limited number in special bindings for the author to give out.
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Maybe it's an authors copy. Sometimes the publishing company will publish a limited number in special bindings for the author to give out.
Or somebody had it specially bound after purchase. Or, occasionally more expensively bound limited editions were made available. I dunno yet.
I might ask a rare book dealer what he knows, thinks, or can find out.
The leather shows a good deal of rubbing on the edges of the boards, but the book is still sound.
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Cool nice book.
I dont need 1. I am married and the wife knows all. lol