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From: kalash@ingres.ARPA (Joe Kalash)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: hardbound library
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 20:55:20 EST
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In article <1115@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> wood%nermal.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM@caip.RUTGERS.EDU writes:
>From: wood%nermal.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM  (Celeste Wood)
>
>I received a solicitation in USnail today.  It is from Easton Press.
>It is for a library of "Masterpeices of Science Fiction".
>These books sound pretty nice but since I'm not much in collecting hardbound
>books I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I am better off getting 
>regular hardbound books.
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>Can anyone tell me if this kind of library is worthwhile from a collectors 
>point of veiw or just for my own private satisfaction that I finally own 
>these great tomes in a proper binding.  

	As a collector of rare SF (I estimate my collection at about $25,000),
I will state that these books will be worth just about nothing as a collectors
object. The only interesting "value" they will have is that some of them
will be signed. After an author dies, signitures will sometimes become
valuable, independent of what they are written on (There is a special
limited "signed" edition of the new "UBIK: The Screenplay", that is signed
by using signitures cut off of old cancelled checks).

	Although, I wouldn't pay more than about $20 for even a nice 
binding (Donald Grant has proven a real nice book can be put out pretty 
cheaply). If they are nicely bounded books, they might be nice to have,
as the first editions cost far more than they are usally worth to most people.


				Joe Kalash
				kalash@berkeley
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