Scored a second run Henry Miller chapbook at the Printers Row Book Fair over the weekend.The description maps pretty closely to one that I tracked down on AbeBooks -- the good news is I paid considerably less:
Money And How It Gets That Way.The pages of mine are also uncut, and there's the rub: If I slice the pages, I expect I'll shave down the value of the book. But if I don't slice 'em, I can't read the book.
Miller, Henry.
Description: Second Edition, 1946. Black and white illustrated wrappers, as issued. Fine copy with a touch of darkening and ruffling to top edge, and pages are uncut. Shifreen & Jackson A18c. 1/1500cc. With ingenious illustrations by Jack Wright in text (and cover). 47pp. Dedicated appropriately enough to Ezra Pound. A partly tongue-in-cheek exposition of the concept of currency.
Book Price: $200
Crap.
4 comments:
ah, there's the rub.
Is this Printers Row Book Fair an annual event? It looks fantastic.
I must put it on the calendar for 2007!
You can't own enough books....
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it is. you must. you're right. (we refer to the fair as the "high holy days" around here.)
Very cool! Too bad about the Catch 22 situation.
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