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Exactly the outrageous doubling of price for a so-called used copy of our CFS Poetry book I was speaking of. Evidently if someone nibbles the seller buys the book at the regular price at Amazon, about $40, and then resells it to the gullible buyer for the rip-off price of $80.

Cicely Fox Smith used both spellings in the titles of her poetry books but concluded that "shanty" was the better spelling for her traditional collection of such sea songs. She used a special spelling of "Tchantey" in her rant about some revivalists in the 1920's who performed such music on the stage in their stripped shirts and sailor caps. She and Joanna Colcord had a lively correspondence, both being woman with interests in the "man's world of tall ships."

Charley Noble