tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post1962963647796670412..comments2023-04-13T12:13:36.321-04:00Comments on The Blind Squirrel: "He's just this guy, you know?"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03221625179310656587noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post-65564945615004362362008-09-21T20:30:00.000-04:002008-09-21T20:30:00.000-04:00You should have said something. I think Santa has...You should have said something. I think Santa has a couple hundred bucks.Home on the Rangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836315423040719919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post-91760098620265606432008-09-21T13:58:00.000-04:002008-09-21T13:58:00.000-04:00Old books have soul. Sometimes I find the inscript...Old books have soul. Sometimes I find the inscription of the author or first owner on the flyleaf and sense kindredship.Somerledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027195332132735795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post-91435779115220263692008-09-21T09:49:00.000-04:002008-09-21T09:49:00.000-04:00Tam... I had to pass on two other finds.A Spanish ...Tam... I had to pass on two other finds.<BR/><BR/>A Spanish FR7 for $200... original and complete but for a missing rear sight wheel. And.... a near perfect copy of 'The Book of Rifles'. I have my dads dog eared copy. Vender wanted half a leg for his new looking one.<BR/><BR/>Bites not having a stack 'o cash when cool things come along. I'll probably kick myself over the FR7... but where the Carteachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468700184940877315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post-56551917952431883832008-09-21T09:19:00.000-04:002008-09-21T09:19:00.000-04:00I am fair green with envy! Nice find!I am fair green with envy! Nice find!Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3025369569723986182.post-84727144520756996362008-09-21T07:47:00.000-04:002008-09-21T07:47:00.000-04:00Few know that between 1850 and the late 1980s, boo...Few know that between 1850 and the late 1980s, books were printed on acidic paper. Conservators can't keep up with the costly restoration and often have to play "book triage" determining which books will live and which will die. <BR/><BR/>I can look in our own libraries and see it, in one, a 1925 biography of the composer Palestrina, discolored and falling apart, and a 1482 volume on Euclid's Home on the Rangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836315423040719919noreply@blogger.com