The Perils of Partnership

Fred Kiesche · 22 Mar 2012, 15:35 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: godelescherbach at gmail.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:35:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Perils of Partnership
Message-ID: <CAC1m3Sd=1ruN4en43y2kytaGjsJSO7Vw5=POJaPqWp-eRbudFQ at mail.gmail.com>

Greetings:

Just got my first three replacement copies of my missing Wolfe's: Innocents
Abroad, Starwater Strains, and Strange Travellers--all short story
collections in case any of the titles in these are on the May Is Gene Wolfe
Shorts Month project.

Annoyed as they are all ex-library books: which the Amazon "partner" did
not mention in his/her description. I did not pay a lot, and these are all
fine "reading copies", but given a choice between a ex-library book with
stickers, mylar wrap and stamps and things inside...and a actual "new" copy
without any of that, I'll choose the new one.

Am I a cranky book collector or what?

-- 
F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always,
scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
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