wow. sweet score.
--- On Fri, 4/3/09, dermdocsx2 <dermdocsx2@cox.net> wrote:
> From: dermdocsx2 <dermdocsx2@cox.net>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Rare finds
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 12:29 PM
> Thought the group would appreciate
> this. All found during a half-hour session browsing through
> an Orange County, California library bookstore:
>
> - a 1989 first edition hardcover of Fast Fade, the ninth
> book in the L.A. PI Jacob Asch series by the recently
> deceased Arthur Lyons, good condition, signed by the author
> with a personal inscription to someone named Ed Quinn
>
> - a 2006 hardcover reissue of the late Ross Thomas's 1978
> Chinaman's Chance, in the Wu/Durant series, very good
> condition, with a new introduction by the author Susan
> Isaacs
>
> - a 1965 hardcover collection of all five Dashiell Hammett
> novels, fair condition, no dustjacket, with a short
> introduction and remembrance by Lillian Hellman, written
> especially for that collection
>
> - a 1992 first edition hardcover of The Long-Legged Fly,
> the first book in James Sallis's Lew Griffin cycle, very
> good condition, from the personal collection of a lady from
> Birmingham, Alabama
>
> Price for all four books: $1.50
> (Lyons and Thomas: 2 for $1, Hammett and Sallis: $.25
> each)
>
> Unbelievable.
>
>
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