Re: RARA-AVIS: The Holy Grail of Paperback Collecting

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 02 Jun 2007


There've been a couple on eBay in the last few months, VG like the one you feature--they've gone for no more than a couple hundred each. Seems Mr. Tim Murphy the Bookseller & his cut-rate brother have tossed their lines overboard in Suckerfish Lake & are waiting for nibbles... Rob

--- Nathan Cain < IndieCrime@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'll just go with a reprint, then.
>
> On 6/1/07, Jeff Vorzimmer < jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This from abebooks:
> >
> > > 1. Black Wings Has My Angel,
> > > Elliott Chaze
> > > Gold Medal 296, 1953, Paperback, , VINTAGE
> PAPERBACK, (A cornerstone of
> > > 1950's American paperback originals, this novel
> stands proudly alongside
> >
> > > the best of that era, as well as giving a nod to
> the Black Mask School
> > of
> > > crime fiction-- in particular, Horace McCoy.
> > > Bookseller: Tim Murphy, Bookseller, Red Hook, NY
> > > Price: US$ 2375.00
> >
> > I had to make sure the listing didn't have a
> misplaced decimal point. So I
> >
> > double-checked. FYI, there's another one available
> at $950.00
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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