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Re: RARA-AVIS: The Glass Key 

Gary!

If ever any of my books start to go for $500 a pop, call me immediately!
I gots lots in an old cardboard box, and we'll split the take!

Fred Zackel

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Gary Warren Niebuhr wrote:

> >Yes, well, you notice that in my original post the word "bargain" was in
> 
> >quotation marks.  Maybe I should have included an emoticon to make clear
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> >that my comments were to be taken ironically.  
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> 
> James -- I got it, I was just agreeing.  As a public librarian I feel great that folks can access our literature without paying the big bucks that collectors shell out to do the same.  I like having first in my collection, but if all I have is a readable copy, I have fulfilled my number one goal: having access to the literature. 
> 
> I also get my firsts inscribed to me, which I am told over and over again lessens the value.  I always reply, for who?  The guy I might some day sell it to?  What do I care.  I want the book to mean something to me. I also read my signed first, tho I do admit it is carefully.
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> I once dropped a first of one of Fred Zackel's books in a snowbank.  I have since replaced it, and have had a chance to meet Fred and have both books signed.  Besides reading the books, it was fun to meet Fred, great to get them signed, and cool that Fred is lurking on this list.  But if I was cut off from this enjoyment because Fred's books had soared to $500 per copy, instead of $50, what does that do to promoting the literature and damping the enjoyment of collecting.  As I said before, I have no answers, but sometimes it makes me real mad.
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> >I would love to attend the panel discussion on inflated prices for
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> >"hypermoderns" (which _The Glass Key_ is patently *not*); how can anyone
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> >justify charging $500+ for such recent firsts like _Booked to Die_?   
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> I hope we sit next to each other and we can bring the fruit to throw.
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> <bold><underline>P. I. E. S. </underline></bold>(Private Investigator
> Entertainment Service)
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> A Catalogue of New and Used Private Eye Fiction
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> <<http://www.execpc.com/~piesbook/piescatalog.html>
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> Gary Warren Niebuhr
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> P. O. Box 341218
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> Milwaukee, WI 53234
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> U. S. A. 
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