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29 Aug 11 - 04:30 PM (#3214726) Subject: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing I have a few books left to give away and would rather they go to good homes of folks I know than to be bundled off to a charity shop. I will do if no one is interested, but thought there might be a few some Mudcatter might like. Maybe this could be a kind of Mudcat Book Swap, though I don't want to swap..just give away!:-)I didn't want to put them in the auction as they need to go, soon, and I'm not sure they would garner enough interest for competitive bidding. Some of them are old, some of them are interesting or, not so easily found, but nothing spectacular that I know of. If you can donate a small amount to Mudcat, I will pay postage save for one set...my maternal granddad's four volume dictionary. It is heavy! (I will still pay postage regardless of donations, but I'd like Mudcat to get a little, when possible.) Anyway, here's the list, please note your interest in this thread or by PM. I'll keep the list updated if there are claims for them. If anyone wants pix, please let me know. More info on them is available through searching www.addall.com which searches all online bookstores for copies. Thanks! Siddhartha - A new Directions Paperback 1951 - 18th printing - yellowed but intact and readable, was $1.25 when new!:-) The Tarot Revealed: A Modern Guide to Reading the Tarot Cards by Eden Gray. Hardback with dustjacket - 1969 Bell PUblishing, a division of Crown Publishers (the only listing for the 1969 version I could find at www.addall.com was for paperback priced at $30!)Taken, No Longer Available. Life Among the Scots- Janet Adam Smith -1949 Collins 14 St James's Place London - with 8 colour plates and 21 B&W illustrations - part of the BRITAIN IN PICTURES -The British People in Pictures series - hardback with dustjacket. DJ has some wear on edges and corners, but is intact. Former owner's name inscribed inside front cover.Taken, No Longer Available. Skyward Ho! edited by Franklin K. Mathiews(sic), Chief Scout Librarian Boy Scouts of America - "Profusely illustrated" and "Published with the approval of the Boy Scouts of America" by Grosset and Dunlap 1930 is the last copyright date entered, though there are several listed. It includes a letter from Charles A. Lindbergh to "Fellow Scouts" printed in the first chapter, "Lindbergh and the Boy Scouts by Peter O. Lamb. I bought it mostly for the wonderful illustrations, but the stories are a glimpse of early days of flight, survival, inventiveness, and fun. It is bound in red, binding is slightly loose, spine is frayed on edges. Child's name is written on a bookplate page of the book and there is repair tape inside the front board. Seasonal Songs from Caprilands Poems by Adelma Grenier Simmons - autographed by the author to me Nov. 29, 1991, published in 1990 by Clinton Press of Tolland, CT. Caprilands was one of my very fav. places to visit in New England and Mrs. Simmons was a most precious and important figure in herbal lore..she had incredible knowledge and style -- often went to Oxford in the summer to lecture. There's more about her HERE. I will post examples of the poems if anyone wishes, though it might take a day or two. Small paperback. Taken, No Longer Available.
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29 Aug 11 - 05:31 PM (#3214757) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: Wesley S Hmmm - No copies of Richard Farinas "I've been down so long it looks like up to me"? I guess I'll just have to keep looking. |
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29 Aug 11 - 06:29 PM (#3214794) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: GUEST,999 '"I've been down so long it looks like up to me"?' Wesley, the title you are looking for is "Been down so long it looks like up to me." It's available at Amazon and other places on the www. Shouldn't be hard to find. |
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29 Aug 11 - 07:14 PM (#3214821) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: open mike Kat, I would be very interested in : Betty Zane by Zane Grey 1933 Grosset & Dunlap - hardback, a little loose, but intact. Pages are naturally yellowed with age. About Zane's grandmother. Turtle Island Alphabet - A Lexicon of Native American Symbols and Culture by Gerald Hausman; forward by N. Scott Momaday - stated First paperback edition 1993, St. Martin's Press - oversized with numerous photos and illustrations. If we can agreed on a compensation and shipping info.....hooray! I just watched Hidalgo, a movie from 2004, that I was surprised I had not heard of..about an endurance rider (thompkins?) and his mustang horse. That would be an interesting book too. Also am reading "Song of the Coyote" |
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29 Aug 11 - 07:28 PM (#3214835) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: gnu Good on ya kat... charity shops are cool most of the time but I think your idea is far better than some pro buying them up at the charity shop and selling them for a profit with VERY little going to charity which is what would likely happen. |
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29 Aug 11 - 07:38 PM (#3214843) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: SINSULL I am packing off some of my old friends once I finish decrapping the first floor. It is so hard to part with books. Nice to share, kat. |
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29 Aug 11 - 08:30 PM (#3214866) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Thanks, everyone! open mike, Betty Zane has been spoken for, but Turtle Island Alphabet is yours. Just PM me your mailing addy, please. Whatever you might be able to send to Mudcat fine, if things are tight do not worry about it. I just want these to go to folks who will appreciate them. Oh, and I LOVED Hidalgo! Have you read The Cowboy and the Cossack? I'll bet you'd love it. Sorry, Wesley, no Farina, that would be lovely, though! gnu, thanks. We watched a guy at the local Goodwill one day. He had a hand scanner and a cellphone, looking up the worth of likely books to purchase and, obviously, resell. I tried reselling. I even have a store at biblio.com, but I just have a hard time letting them go to strangers. The best charity I've found, for me, is a shop run by pet rescuers started by a medical doc! Thanks, Sins. I know...I never, ever, thought I'd see a day when I would winnow out my books so much, but it is freeing, in a way. |
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29 Aug 11 - 08:33 PM (#3214867) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: michaelr I'd be interested in "Life among the Scots". |
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29 Aug 11 - 08:40 PM (#3214869) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: Bill D Open Mike... the movie "Hildalgo" has been shown to be apocryphal. No such race ever happened. But it IS a great movie.... I've seen ti 3-4 times. |
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29 Aug 11 - 08:40 PM (#3214870) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing It's yours, michaelr. Please PM me with your mailing addy and THANKS! |
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29 Aug 11 - 10:21 PM (#3214918) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: EBarnacle Cowboy and the Cossack is one of very few good books about an underknown part of American and World history--The Allied expeditionary force in Russia in opposition to the Russian Revolution. Whoever gets it, enjoy! |
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29 Aug 11 - 11:22 PM (#3214939) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Well, yes, but I am not offering it, Ebarnacle. *bg* I have two copies. One falling to bits and the other intact. I have read it twice and enjoyed it every bit the second time as the first. It's a keeper! I just wish my dad had known of it before he passed. Tomorrow morning is going to be very busy, but I'll try to get the others listed by afternoon sometime. Thanks to all. kat |
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30 Aug 11 - 03:00 PM (#3215357) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: JohnInKansas "One falling to bits" sometimes is a good thing since I got a decent auto-feed scanner that can handle "slightly fragile" stuff. The crumbly ones are easier to take apart to run through. Of course if it's really crumbly you get "bits" in the scanner that leave tracks on the scan, so there are limits. The pages are as intact coming out as when they go in, and I've considered "rebinding" a couple; but that's pretty time intensive and fairly old pages don't really take well to new glue and stitching. A lot of my "accumulated wisdom" is obsolete technical stuff that takes a lot less space on the computer than on the book shelf, but cutting the pages apart to go through the scanner, with books in good condition, is "hard labor." Once that's done, dropping them through the scanner is just "button pushing," although minor "clever button pushing" is required sometimes. I've tried taking some to the used book shops, but they're usually still laughing when I leave. The only ones that might be even remotely interesting to anyone else are worth more to me as digital copies than to anyone else, so I mostly just rip 'n tear as required. John |
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30 Aug 11 - 03:32 PM (#3215381) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Hadn't thought of that, JohninKS. Good idea, esp. with old stuff. Now, I wish I'd done that with a few I can think of which I donated. A digital copy of each would have been great. Thanks! |
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30 Aug 11 - 03:38 PM (#3215387) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: Wesley S So "The Cowboy and the Cossack" fan club here at the Mudcat stands at three so far. That book would make one hell of a film. |
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30 Aug 11 - 04:30 PM (#3215420) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Here's the second batch. Same deal as above: Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown-A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New Selected by Marvin Kaye Guild America Books, Doubleday Book and Music Clubs - 1993. Fifty eight stories and poems. Authors include: Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Authur Machen, Richard Matheson, and many more. 573 pages including acknowledgements. Good condition, slightly wobbly, dj has tears, but is all there.:-) The Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl a novel by David Breskin. 1989 Viking - good condition with dj. Smalltown Wyoming girl lands a job with an all-women blasting crew in a coal mine during the boom times all the while telling about her life on the new frontier. Great Short Stories - Volume II Ghost Stories edited by William Patten. P.F. Collier & Son, 1906. Red board with decorative black border on front. Spine is loose and has been taped (stupidly with scotch tape!) I will post a list of the authors and stories if anyone is interested. Good stuff!! Very classic. 428 pages Innocents Abroad Mark Twain, 1911 edition Grossett and Dunlap. Signed by my paternal grandfather. Spine, front and back cover are detached, but otherwise in decent condition. Taken-No Longer Available
The Search for the Girl With the Blue Eyes- A Venture into Reincarnation - Jess Stearn, 1968 Doubleday & Co. Hardback with dj which has some discolouration. Book is in good condition. 304 pages.
The full title page description reads: piles for each word the highest authorities of all dictionaries on orthography, pronunciation, etymology, meaning, origin, development, and use including a condensed explanation of over fifty thousand important subjects To which is added a compendium of historical, biographical, geographical, scientific, religious, and sociological names, and A complete summary of human achievements in the nine- teenth & twentieth centuries With special reference to invention, exploration, and the development of civilization through scientific research Illustrated with many colored plates and drawings" Each volume is approx. 3.5 inches thick, 8.5" wide, and 11.25 tall. They are very heavy! If anyone wants them, they will have to help with postage.
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30 Aug 11 - 04:35 PM (#3215421) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Took too long to type up that last post to respond to you, Wesley. YES! It could be a fantastic movie! I *think* it was you who told me about it, years ago.:-) |
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30 Aug 11 - 04:44 PM (#3215428) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: GUEST,josepp I already can't store the books I have--some of which date back to the 16th century. |
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31 Aug 11 - 05:22 AM (#3215747) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: JohnInKansas "A digital copy of each would have been great." A good scanner with automatic sheet feeder is almost essential for books. Laying single sheets on a flatbed is extremely time consuming and produces pains in muscles you didn't know you had from the repetitive motions. Clean separation of the pages is essential, so you need a sharp knife and a steel straight edge to guide it. I started off with a rather expensive HP multipurpose that claimed to be able to feed a page, scan both sides of it, and feed the next page. It turned out that its preference was to scan one side and eat the other side. It's still an excellent printer, ink jet at half the page cost of my B/W Laser, so I'll eventually get my money's worth if it keeps running. My current tool is an Epson single pass autofeed - not exactly cheap, but reasonable for what it does. If I select pdf output it assembles pages in the order scanned into a pdf, but for multi page 2-sided stuff I've found it a lot faster to scan to jpg one side, which gives a separate jpg file for each page. Flop the stack over and scan the other side. The first side pages have to be renumbered to odd pages, which is trivial with a simple batch file. The second side though is in reverse order so the order has to be reversed and the pages renumbered to even numbers. Once they're all in order, my PDF converter is drag-n-drop to assemble a PDF from the jpg pages. I found it easiest to have a separate batch file for each "number of pages" to flip the even numbered pages at the right place. Not as difficult as it might sound. When the HP jammed on a page, it was impossible to get the jammed page out without tearing it to bits and fragments. When the Epson (rarely) jams, a quick pull on one handle opens the entire feed path and the "jammed page" falls out cleanly. Enormous difference. My 8,000 page Chevy maintenance manual (4 volumes each 3" thick) did take about 3 days (Flimsy Paper and frequent rescans of individual pages that "missed"), but a typical 300 to 400 page book is usually a couple of hours, once you've got the method down pat. The scans aren't quite all perfectly nice and straight, but good enough for my needs so I rarely bother with rescans. Unfortunately since I scan and save at "production quality" and moderate compression to preserve printability, the PDF files are larger than I'd hoped, but there's always a trade-off or two. I've managed to produce about 750 PDF files in my "Books" folder, most of which are books or pamphlets, with a few individual pages mixed in (Individual scores from music books, etc). The Epson scanner is barely 8 months old, and accounts for nearly all of the useful scans. Now if only there was a decent scanner for those oversized Art Book pages... ... (The cheapest scanner for page widths over 8.5 inches that I've found was $1,200. I'm still looking.) John |
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31 Aug 11 - 08:35 AM (#3215835) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: jacqui.c I would love the Tarot book please Kat. I'll be back in Maine next week and will send you money for mailing cost. |
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31 Aug 11 - 09:30 AM (#3215869) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Yes, Jacqui. It is yours and I will pay the mailing cost, no worries. Thanks! JohninKS, thanks for the further info! |
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31 Aug 11 - 11:39 AM (#3215940) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Books spoken for are packaged and ready to mail out. I've a box to go to my son, too, so will probably wait for Rog to help me on Friday, so watch yer mail next week!:-) Looking at my books still left on the shelves, I see more on offer, soon. This is FUN! Thanks, again, folks! |
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31 Aug 11 - 11:44 AM (#3215945) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: Bill D If I were to follow Kat's example and offer the books I no longer need, the Post Office would be saved from bankruptcy. hmmmmm... lemme think. |
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31 Aug 11 - 12:01 PM (#3215951) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: EBarnacle Is the Gould still available? |
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31 Aug 11 - 12:04 PM (#3215952) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Yes, would you like it? BillD...I'll bet there would be a lot of drooling over what you might offer judging from what treasures you've posted about in the past from your |
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31 Aug 11 - 12:07 PM (#3215953) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: Bill D Well, if I decide to get rid of BISBA, you get first crack. ;>) |
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31 Aug 11 - 03:33 PM (#3216079) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: KT Great idea, kat! I wish I'd seen this thread sooner. I've been weeding out too, and have recently mailed out to friends, and delivered to local shops, 5 boxes of books. There are still many more that deserve to be read, rather than sit on the shelf gathering dust, so I'll have to revisit that project again soon. With regard to your suggestion of a book swap... What do you think about folks posting a title or subject that they're looking for, as well? That could serve as a good prompt for someone who would be happy to pass one on, but who may not be into sorting through the whole collection just now. Just a thought... |
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31 Aug 11 - 04:39 PM (#3216124) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Yes, KT, I think that's a great idea. Are you familiar with www.paperbackswap.com? I don't think we need anything so formal, but it's a neat idea. I like the idea of my books going to Mudcatters, that's why this is so fun. It was really hard when I sent out the first few boxes of books to charity, but I'm getting better at it. BillDarlin'...I can't wait!**BG** |
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01 Sep 11 - 02:17 PM (#3216599) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Ebarnacle, thanks. I've marked that one as taken.:-) kat |
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01 Sep 11 - 08:59 PM (#3216794) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Is the Caprilands book still available? Aren't you a sweetheart? I would love to unload some of our library- might be a good winter task this year. |
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01 Sep 11 - 10:07 PM (#3216814) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Yes, 2Ls,*bg* in fact I was thinking you might like it. Shall I mark it as taken? I don't know if they are accepting donations, but I heard a really sad story on npr, today, about a library in Upper Jay, NY, which lost almost all of its children's books and many others. Here's a bit about it: A pile of books(sitting on the lawn, waiting for removal) shows that at the Wells Memorial Library in Upper Jay. A third of the library's 10,000 book collection was destroyed. "The first two levels of every shelf in the library and the majority of the children's section," said Marie-Anne Azar Ward of Wells Memorial Library. One woman was quoted in another story, saying wherever she was in upstate NY, they'd lost about 1,000 antique books. If I find out anything about donating, I will probably send them what I can. |
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02 Sep 11 - 09:11 AM (#3217024) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Yes, please, Kat-me-luv, I would so love that! Do you have my Tam Lin addy? I think you might. Lots of libraries in need right now, thanks to Irene. Bless you for thinking of Upper Jay. LLs |
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02 Sep 11 - 10:13 AM (#3217058) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Yes, I do, I think. If not I'll let you know.:-) luvya and thanks! kat |
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02 Sep 11 - 01:56 PM (#3217180) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Mailed off all spoken for books this morning. Watch yer mail boxes and thanks, again! |
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03 Sep 11 - 12:48 AM (#3217422) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: ChanteyLass While I could not take in any of the books, I think this is a wonderful idea. |
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03 Sep 11 - 01:58 PM (#3217642) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Thanks! |
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03 Sep 11 - 04:11 PM (#3217697) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Here are a few more offerings: Guide to the Colorado Mountains by the Colorado Mountain Club, edited by Robert M. Ormes, Sage Books - Denver CO, Fourth, revised edition 1955, 231 pages including index. Several colour plates & B&W drawings/maps. Ex-San Antonio, TX library book with the check-out card envelope intact. Hardback, green. Handy size at about 4.75 X 6 or so. Very Good condition with only a little wear on the corners. Vagabonding Down the Andes - Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry A. Franck, 1917 Garden City Publishing Co. Another of my paternal grandfather's, well-read, I think, as the spine and first two pages (a fold-out map in colour) are detached. Lower spine corner in torn, slightly, various other small bumps on the edges and a small water mark or two. Green hardback, 838 pages including many B&W photos. Wyoming Summer by Mary O'Hara, author of "My Friend, Flicka," copyright by her in 1963 a Book Club Edition. A good read! Hardback, 286 pages with intact dustjacket which is printed with a full-colour painting by Charles McCurry. In this book, she writes of the real place, people and critters which were the inspiration for her novels about Wyoming. Thanks! |
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03 Sep 11 - 04:17 PM (#3217704) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old and/or used books From: katlaughing Here are a few more offerings: Guide to the Colorado Mountains by the Colorado Mountain Club, edited by Robert M. Ormes, Sage Books - Denver CO, Fourth, revised edition 1955, 231 pages including index. Several colour plates & B&W drawings/maps. Ex-San Antonio, TX library book with the check-out card envelope intact. Hardback, green. Handy size at about 4.75 X 6 or so. Very Good condition with only a little wear on the corners. Vagabonding Down the Andes - Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry A. Franck, 1917 Garden City Publishing Co. Another of my paternal grandfather's, well-read, I think, as the spine and first two pages (a fold-out map in colour) are detached. Lower spine corner in torn, slightly, various other small bumps on the edges and a small water mark or two. Green hardback, 838 pages including many B&W photos. Wyoming Summer by Mary O'Hara, author of "My Friend, Flicka," copyright by her in 1963 a Book Club Edition. A good read! Hardback, 286 pages with intact dustjacket which is printed with a full-colour painting by Charles McCurry. In this book, she writes of the real place, people and critters which were the inspiration for her novels about Wyoming. Thanks! |
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25 Sep 11 - 12:48 PM (#3228754) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old/used books-more added! From: katlaughing Just a LAST CHANCE offer. All unclaimed books will be going to charity by the end of this week. If any of you wants any of them, please let me know before Friday. Thanks! |
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25 Sep 11 - 01:14 PM (#3228764) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old/used books-Last Chance! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Got mine, love it- thanks so much, Kat-me-luv! |
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26 Sep 11 - 11:11 AM (#3229296) Subject: RE: BS: To Good Homes - old/used books-Last Chance! From: GUEST,999 Many thanks, Kat. |