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 Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:02 pm
About a month ago I found the English dub of an old German animated movie called Felidae on youtube. I watched it and was interested, so I looked up more information on Wikipedia. Turns out it was based on an old book by German author Akif Pirinçci and was the book was also translated.
So I looked. And looked, and looked, and so on. I was never able to find a copy of the book anywhere.
Then lo and behold, 5 sellers from Barnes and Nobel decided to put up their copies up on the website. Yay! I'm getting my book in next week!
If you have a story about a rare book or rare edition you magically seemed to find, share, by all means!
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:10 am
I collect Newbery Award winners. Every year, I go out and buy the hardcover edition of the newest winner. Finding older books is a problem, though. The oldest Newbery winner is The Story of Mankind, from 1922, and it's completely out of print (not to mention factually out of date). The best I had ever seen was my library's revised edition from 1988.
Then, a very remote relative died. My family got tapped to clean her house out. It was disgusting--she had owned a dog, but never let it out, smoked so badly that every piece of furniture had a yellow coating, never threw a can of food away from her kitchen, etc. However, because of her hoarding habits, there was a pile of old books that I got to sort and figure out what to do with--among them, The Story of Mankind! I took it as partial payment for the gross work I did that day.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:47 pm
Well, I'm not exactly sure that my story would count as one involving a rare book, but rather one where the book finds the searcher unexpectedly.
I had always been curious about the original Winnie the Pooh, since Disney takes great pains in botching up every story they interpret. I knew my local Barnes and Noble had a copy, though it was newer hardcover and rather expensive, and being a college student, I'm thankful for the change in my pocket these days. So, I let it go in the hopes that I could search for it again around Christmas.
Then came a day when my mom decided we would help out a volunteer-run library with their book sale. It was a small, cramped room filled with books of all kinds, so I wasn't unhappy. At one point we both stood up and went to go tidy things up a bit. Suddenly my mom holds up a small, beaten hardcover and says, "Weren't you looking for this?" And lo and behold, there was a 1961, illustrated edition of Winnie-The-Pooh.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:06 pm
I certainly don't ever think I'll find the hardcover editions of the first 3 books in The Adept by Kurtz and Harris. The series is out of print, and while it's not too difficult to find paperbacks of the first 3, locating affordable hardcovers is nearly impossible. On-line they sell for over $200. eek I have the paperbacks, so I don't need the hardcovers, but when I own a series I like to have them all in hardcover or all in paperback since they look better on the shelf. I have the hardcovers of books 4 and 5, so it would be nice to have the first in tht edition as well.
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:37 am
I had been looking for two books for a very long time- Whitley Striber's Billy and The novelization of the made-for-TV movie The 10th Kingdom. Billy had been out of print for a while, and The 10th Kingdom I assumed was as well, but I found both (Billy in hardcover!) on www.alibris.com. Only paid around four dollars plus shipping, too!
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