Some worthwhile reading at Hyraxia, a newly discovered blog that bills itself as the “Book Collecting Portal”:
Some gratuitous advice for dealers, collectors and people of the book -some of it untested and some possibly erroneous. Inspired by Nelson Algren's three bits of advice in his 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side -”Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” The woman in question may well have been Simone de Beauvoir with whom Algren was in a triangulated relationship, the third person being Jean Paul Sartre. Whether she had more problems than Algren is a moot point. By all accounts Sartre and Algren got on well… Anyway here goes with some bookish advice, caveats and absolute no-nos.
via Bookride – Do Judge a Book by its Cover… – Hyraxia – The Book Collecting Portal for First Editions, Rare and Antiquarian Books.
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Bookride – Do Judge a Book by its Cover… – Hyraxia – The Book Collecting Portal for First Editions, Rare and Antiquarian Books
Some worthwhile reading at Hyraxia, a newly discovered blog that bills itself as the “Book Collecting Portal”:
Some gratuitous advice for dealers, collectors and people of the book -some of it untested and some possibly erroneous. Inspired by Nelson Algren's three bits of advice in his 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side -”Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.” The woman in question may well have been Simone de Beauvoir with whom Algren was in a triangulated relationship, the third person being Jean Paul Sartre. Whether she had more problems than Algren is a moot point. By all accounts Sartre and Algren got on well… Anyway here goes with some bookish advice, caveats and absolute no-nos.
via Bookride – Do Judge a Book by its Cover… – Hyraxia – The Book Collecting Portal for First Editions, Rare and Antiquarian Books.
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