by Carrie Bailey In Corvallis, Oregon on the 24th of March 2013, a cult organized by Nathan Dunham ritually burned a copy of The First Book of Urizen by William Blake. The work was prophetic in nature and the copy had been in the possession of Dunham’s father, Dr. Uri Dunham. It was reported to be one of only eight known to still exist. The cult, who call themselves Red Dawn, had been struggling to gain membership and notoriety for some time. Their organization consisted mostly of college age men whose parents worked at the local university. The members themselves were generally unemployed, in their early twenties, and had staged a series of public demonstrations to promote their political and quasi-religious agenda. In September 2011,
Auction News/Info Archive
More about auctions Apparently there are auctions and then there are Colorado prairie auctions. On TV, I’ve seen pictures of auctions in England and other places where people are INSIDE and they actually sit on chairs, and to bid, they hold up a paddle. Isn’t that amazing? And there’s an article on this blog which tells about auctions in which a commission is added onto the amount you bid. Now, I have heard of this, indirectly. Sometimes on the bottom of the auction listings in the local paper there is a disclaimer stating firmly that this is not done at this particular auction company and it is always ‘safe to bid.’ One may deduce that it is done in big cities, but I think the
The topic of finding stock is a never ending one. You’ll find many articles about this topic on this blog and on other blogs worldwide. Each country/region has it’s different challenges and Australia is no different. I find my books in so many different ways: op shops; garage sales; online auction sites; deceased estates; and on one occasion, by the side of the road. One place I’ve never tried as I presume I’d get really carried away is real life auctions. I was reading an article in a blog about sourcing quality inventory and it got me thinking. Now, I’d love to try his method of seeing the list of books online, checking out their prices and then putting the bids in or just ordering
Here is a terrific view into a Boston area auction from Tom of Pazzo Books. *************************** October 9th Auction notes – It’s not the Venom, it’s the Bite There’s a book auction that we frequent perhaps 10 times a year – typically we go to the uncatalogued sales to pick up lots of material that we don’t have easy access to, usually antiquarian (or at least old). Occasionally though we go to a catalog sale and try our hand at picking up some higher end books. The catalog sales attract an entirely different group of folks – at least half collectors – and they also get quite a number of telephone and faxed bids (which results in many items starting over my max price). This
Another entry from our distinguished writer from Massachusetts Tom Nealon of Pazzo Books A signed proof of Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is headed for auction in November at Swann. It has a signed dedication to Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s fiancee and is signed to his friend and longtime employee Toby Otto Bruce, as well as being, apparently, the first signed proof of one of his novels ever to surface. Why then, is Swann projecting a price of $75,000 -$125,000? A signed and inscribed (to his physician) copy of The Sun Also Rises, from the famed Maurice Neville collection, went for $366,400 in 2004. An inscribed first of Three Stories and Ten Poems from the same collection went for $150,000, Old Man and the Sea