Black Maria Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 50 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: Mind you at £20 it represents better value than the genuine 1st on the same platform at an eye-watering £1250. Don’t think I’d switch jackets between copies. Most of the books I’m after are so scarce that the chances of finding more than one are fairly distant. I think it’s more of a concern for wealthy collectors of modern firsts. I suppose If you’re spending tens of thousands on a book it needs to be right. Oh yes indeed , great value if it goes for £20 . 'Subaltern on the Somme 'was one of the first books i bought in it's jacket ( 1st ed ) , i saw it at a flea market and casually asked the vendor how much he wanted for it and couldn't get my money out quick enough when he said " a fiver " ( the £1250 one is of course being sold by the dealer who has eye watering prices ) . I noticed recently on e-bay a dealer got negative feedback because a buyer had noticed the jacket of their 1st edition book was from a later edition so i suppose it pays to check them ( both for buyer and seller ! ) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkalotloudly Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 2 hours ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: Mind you at £20 it represents better value than the genuine 1st on the same platform at an eye-watering £1250. Don’t think I’d switch jackets between copies. Most of the books I’m after are so scarce that the chances of finding more than one are fairly distant. I think it’s more of a concern for wealthy collectors of modern firsts. I suppose If you’re spending tens of thousands on a book it needs to be right. i would suggest a bid of 700.00 might well secure this item ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 2 hours ago, barkalotloudly said: i would suggest a bid of 700.00 might well secure this item ? I was thinking more along the lines of moving the decimal point back a place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 40 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: I was thinking more along the lines of moving the decimal point back a place. As there are only a handful of collecting this sort of thing and i would suspect most of us will have a jacketed copy already (so it's a dealers lot ) i was going to suggest about half of that . Although having said that another jacketed copy ( 1928 ed ) was up for a buy now of about £125 a couple of weeks ago and now seems to have gone, so i could well be wrong ( i usually am ) As i said before it's a bit like buses , this copy makes the 4th jacketed one I've seen for sale in the last couple of months . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 2 hours ago, Black Maria said: As there are only a handful of collecting this sort of thing Hmmm- So a well motivated serial killer could destroy an entire collecting genre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 Hmmm- So a well motivated serial killer could destroy an entire collecting genre? I’m pretty sure there are quite a number of wealthy but more secretive collectors out there. Not everyone’s as friendly as us lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 Hmmm- So a well motivated serial killer could destroy an entire collecting genre? On 11/03/2021 at 15:29, Dust Jacket Collector said: I’m pretty sure there are quite a number of wealthy but more secretive collectors out there. Not everyone’s as friendly as us lot. Agreed , they belong to the three wise monkeys club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 8 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: more secretive collectors The ones whose libraries are next to the fortified deep-level bunkers in Brazil where they keep their galleries of stolen art? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 11 March , 2021 Share Posted 11 March , 2021 Brazil - where they keep their galleries of stolen art? Brazil. I thought it was in Paris! https://www.artlyst.com/news/wildenstein-scandal-the-end-of-the-road/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 25 March , 2021 Share Posted 25 March , 2021 Gosh, Long Covid must addle the brain somewhat. J.C.Dunn-TWTIK. 4 copies kicking around- One at a provincial auction that I did not bother to mark the result. One from a kingly bookseller on the South Coast at £1500. One on Ebygum that failed to sell at £600 and has been relisted in the slightly bizarre ways of that bookseller at £900. And, of course, top of the tree- a Harrington offering at a mere £2,250 (but you do get free postage-fairs fair). Well,it shows that the officers mess of RWF were not book connoisseurs,if nothing else. For that sort of money for a book in that condition, I would at least expect the tractor which had been used to pull it over several ploughed fields to have been chucked in as part of the deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 26 March , 2021 Share Posted 26 March , 2021 Pity they didn’t hang on to the jacket it originally came in! Maybe still out in the field somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 26 March , 2021 Share Posted 26 March , 2021 For a book that was supposedly printed in such small numbers it's surprising how many copies regularly appear for sale , usually at silly prices ! I must have seen at least 15 copies since i began collecting as opposed to that other classic 'Devil in the Drum' , of which I've only seen 3 copies for sale . To be honest although everyone seems to rave about TWTIK i didn't find it particularly memorable when i read it and would have been quite happy with my 1987 good quality hardback copy if i hadn't have been fortunate to find a relatively cheap original copy recently . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 26 March , 2021 Share Posted 26 March , 2021 I would agree that it is slightly too common to be classed as rare. And, yes, I have never been that enthusiastic about it, as it is,after all, a post-war construct- in effect, Dunn's version of "I was There" pulling together the accounts of others to end up with something that smacks of the book equivalent of Journey's End. Let's see how many more copies turn up this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 21 April , 2021 Share Posted 21 April , 2021 On 27/02/2021 at 22:18, 593jones said: Reading 'The Lost Legions of Fromelles' by Peter Barton. Excellent book, that one is still missing on my stack of "to read". For now, just freshly done with me research paper, I actually haven't read anything WWI related for the last five month (apart from a try at "the Dead of Mametz", which I regretted downloading on kindl and Jacqueline's Winspear's "The care and management of lies", which in turn I highly recommend) Easing my way back into the saddle now I've decided to re-read "Birdsong" and then I will first re-read Keegan and Little-Hart's seminal histories of the war before diving back into my research again... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 22 April , 2021 Share Posted 22 April , 2021 Good luck with 'Birdsong' - once was enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scorer Posted 22 April , 2021 Share Posted 22 April , 2021 (edited) "Jacqueline's Winspear's "The care and management of lies", which in turn I highly recommend) " I'm sure that you're aware (but others might not know) that this is one of a series of mysteries featuring a female private detective, Masie Dobbs. They're not all connected with the First World War, but there are echoes of what happened to her during the war in all of them. I've read them all, and I think that they're good. Edited 22 April , 2021 by The Scorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Filsell Posted 22 April , 2021 Share Posted 22 April , 2021 (edited) Birdsong. Once described to me as Birdshite. And it truly is, as are virtually all the novels about the Great War published since 1945. Regards David Edited 22 April , 2021 by David Filsell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 22 April , 2021 Admin Share Posted 22 April , 2021 2 hours ago, David Filsell said: Birdsong. Once described to me as Birdshite. And it truly is, as are virtually all the novels about the Great War published since 1945. Regards David I was tempted to suggest a list of ‘worst’ WW1 fiction or at least, best avoided’ but you seem to have it covered 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted 22 April , 2021 Share Posted 22 April , 2021 3 hours ago, David Filsell said: Birdsong. Once described to me as Birdshite. And it truly is, as are virtually all the novels about the Great War published since 1945. Regards David I hope you're not including 'Covenant With Death' in that category! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 (edited) Likewise 'In Parenthesis'! 🙂 - oh, hang on, not a novel - scrub round that... Edited 23 April , 2021 by seaJane Oops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 3 hours ago, seaJane said: Likewise 'In Parenthesis'! 🙂 - oh, hang on, not a novel - scrub round that... and published in 1937 as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 3 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: and published in 1937 as well! Could have sworn it was later! Must have been thinking of something else.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dust Jacket Collector Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 1 minute ago, seaJane said: Could have sworn it was later! Must have been thinking of something else.... The Anathemata perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 37 minutes ago, Dust Jacket Collector said: The Anathemata perhaps? Quite probably . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 23 April , 2021 Share Posted 23 April , 2021 On 22/04/2021 at 14:27, The Scorer said: "Jacqueline's Winspear's "The care and management of lies", which in turn I highly recommend) " I'm sure that you're aware (but others might not know) that this is one of a series of mysteries featuring a female private detective, Masie Dobbs. They're not all connected with the First World War, but there are echoes of what happened to her during the war in all of them. I've read them all, and I think that they're good. Got them all too, except the very latest ... Love them!!! M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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