Yes, please.
Particularly, as others have stated, if it's a reprint. Or if
it's for an author or work that may need a bit of an
introduction.
A well-written intro can offer context and enlightenment, and
make reading the book all the more of a pleasure, in much the
same way TVO's Elwy Yost (is he still around?) or TCM's
Robert Osbourne can make watching an old movie on the tube
more than just watching an old movie on the tube.
Mind you, that's also a bit of a self-serving response, since
more than a few of us rare birds, myself included, have been
guilty of perpetrating intros and other such crimes against
humanity.
Bill Crider's contribution (technically, an "afterward") to
the Stark House Whittington reprints, for example, is almost
worth the price of admission alone.
So, support intros and their ilk. If nothing else, they keep
rare birds off the streets.
Kevin
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