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Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.161.200
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:15 am: | |
To buy these: http://www.lwcurrey.com/details.php?record=134673&URLPAIR=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lwcur rey.com%2FadvSearchResults.php%3Faction%3Dsearch&pageName=Search&category_id=0&a uthorField&titleField&orderBy=relevance&keywordsField=aickman&submit.x=0&submit. y=0 ... so we can all read them! |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.55.90
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:10 pm: | |
Good Lord! I can't imagine ayone buying these. I've known some wealthy American collectors in my time, but this is steep! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.161.200
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:05 pm: | |
If I were a wealthy American collector I'd buy them! If the collection was $6,500 I'd be tempted (but unable to justify it). $650 and I would have probably already bought them (and be trying to resign myself to the fact that I couldn't buy anything else for the rest of the year). |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.55.90
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:38 pm: | |
I wonder how the bookseller justifies the asking price, e.g. why 65,000 and not 32,500 or 16,250. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.127.208
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:46 pm: | |
I can't quite see how they arrive at that price anyway. To what could they have compared these letters? This is a unique item so unless you're selling at auction I can't see this is anything beyond greed. Mind you, I used to buy books from Currey back in the 'eighties and they often seemed overpriced then. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.127.208
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:46 pm: | |
Ah, I see Hubert's beaten me! |
Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.55.90
| Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 09:43 pm: | |
He's got even more expensive stuff: http://www.lwcurrey.com/details.php?record=127416&URLPAIR=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lwcur rey.com%2FadvSearchResults.php%3Faction%3Dsearch%26kwconj%3Dand%26authorField%3D Lovecraft%26category_id%3D0%26orderBy%3Dauthor%26recordsLength%3D100%26want_id%3 D0%26store_id%3D0%26elid%3D0%26browseLetter%3D%26recordStart%3D100%26nextStart%3 D100%26prevStart%3D0%26numberRecords%3D217%26thisStart%3D101%26thisEnd%3D200%26p %3D2%26fp%3D I wonder who the original seller was. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.158.59.74
| Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 12:34 am: | |
He seems way over priced on a lot of stuff. He has first edition Fahenheit 451s for 3 times the most expensive ebay listing... |