tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post1979527177320515078..comments2024-03-18T12:21:07.141-05:00Comments on American Book Collecting: Howes This for a Book Story to Make You CringeKurt Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027574788531126159noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post-42109564543045956992013-01-18T23:10:43.621-06:002013-01-18T23:10:43.621-06:00However, this is a bookseller of the highest stand...However, this is a bookseller of the highest standing whose staff should know such basics. I felt the bookseller could have responded at greater length with a more concerned attitude.<br /><br /> I strongly agree with your second sentence and reading the first one cannot but wonder why you weren't at least offered a significant discount rather than the standard ability to return. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post-29506721362109851932013-01-16T21:38:37.277-06:002013-01-16T21:38:37.277-06:00Nicely put, Joe. Antiseptic book collecting has i...Nicely put, Joe. Antiseptic book collecting has its consequences.Kurt Zimmermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03027574788531126159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post-69376856284670958442013-01-16T18:51:45.984-06:002013-01-16T18:51:45.984-06:00This is an example of what can happen When Worlds ...This is an example of what can happen When Worlds Collide.... So, for instance, worker-bees trained in what can often be the antiseptic environment of Modern First Editions (where books are perfect, authorial inscriptions are avoided for all but the most famous or book related of inscribees... in short, any hint of individual personality is eschewed at all costs), serving customers equally obsessed, never learn to hear/see/appreciate the stories that Each and Every Individual Book wants to tell us. Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549443753063992971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post-30493457606230984232013-01-16T15:03:36.225-06:002013-01-16T15:03:36.225-06:00Yikes.Yikes.Benjamin L Clarkhttp://exilebibliophile.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384320141963762926.post-89528090954356342772013-01-16T12:09:33.319-06:002013-01-16T12:09:33.319-06:00Wow - I would not have kept such a cool head :) I ...Wow - I would not have kept such a cool head :) I love these kind of stories - not the erasure part- the USIANA part; Ron keeps bringing stuff out and telling stories ...<br /><br />PiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com