This weeks treasure

[Stoney]

At our library used book store I found this treasure for $4.00.

I've been looking for an unabridged Websters Desk Dictionary for a long time.  Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.

[Branson]

>Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.

You can come over and use mine.<g>  I do see the two volume set from time to time -- the one that comes with a magnifying glass.

I saved another book yesterday from the recycle bin. (actually four, but this one stands out).  A Persian Journey,  Being an Etcher's Impressions of the Middle East, by Fred Richards, R.E.  I can't believe anyone would send it to recycle!  Published in 1931, apparently a first edition, since I found '32 editions for sale.  All the firsts I found were bound in read cloth, but this one is full bound in calf.  I haven't been able to find a reference to a calf bound edition.  It's the kind of binding that is the top of the book binder's art -- the sort one finds on 18th and 19th Century fine books. 

I guess it was donated to the library, and the library couldn't use it.  The smart folks at the Chino library sell such books through Amazon, where I got my first edition of De Cristoforo's  Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone, featuring the ShopSmith ER.

[johnsironsanctuary]

Read cloth?  Is that a bibliophilian slip?

[scottg]

Going to have to have an unabridged desk to hold it up though.
yours Scott

[Stoney]

Yeah ScottG I thinking maybe a stand made of cross tie cutoffs available at my buddies sawmill.  Of course that brings up shoring up the floor etc & etc & etc.  My dad and me built a 4 X 10 leather cutting table with cross tie cutoff legs and a 2 X 3 top.  When I closed my shop it took 4 200 lb men to put it on the trailer.  My boys used to mark everything I made Manufactured by Cleveland Hernia and Truss Co. HaHaHaHa

[Branson]

Read cloth?  Is that a bibliophilian slip?

Fear so.  Make that RED cloth.

[Branson]

Now all I need is an unabridged Oxford.

Oxford published (publishes?) a dictionary about the size of your Merriam.  The Oxford Universal Dictionary.  I found
one of those a while back, and it sits on the shelf next to the 12 volume OED.  Makes three feet of dictionary.  You can
look up words and get your daily exercise!

[Stoney]

WOW with that, I could give up my Fitness Center membership and exercise my mind and muscles at the same time.

[Stoney]

.  A Persian Journey,  Being an Etcher's Impressions of the Middle East, by Fred Richards, R.E.  I can't believe anyone would send it to recycle!  Published in 1931, apparently a first edition, since I found '32 editions for sale.  All the firsts I found were bound in read cloth, but this one is full bound in calf.  I haven't been able to find a reference to a calf bound edition.  It's the kind of binding that is the top of the book binder's art -- the sort one finds on 18th and 19th Century fine books. 

Maybe it's an authors copy.  Sometimes the publishing company will publish a limited number in special bindings for the author to give out.

[Branson]

Maybe it's an authors copy.  Sometimes the publishing company will publish a limited number in special bindings for the author to give out.

Or somebody had it specially bound after purchase.  Or, occasionally more expensively bound limited editions were made available. I dunno yet.
I might ask a rare book dealer what he knows, thinks, or can find out.

The leather shows a good deal of rubbing on the edges of the boards, but the book is still sound.

[Steve-o]

Cool nice book.
I dont need 1. I am married and the wife knows all.  lol