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V11 2008 INDEX
E-SYLUM ARCHIVE
YOU MIGHT BE A NUMISMATIC BIBLIOPHILE IF ...
We had a lot of fun with last week's submissions on signs
of numismatic bibliophile-hood. Anyone have more to add? -Editor
Wayne Schroll writes:
I laughed so hard when I read this article in the latest
issue. Then I suddenly stopped laughing because it occurs to me that I may
have a problem...
Nancy Green writes:
I really enjoyed the "You might be if numismatic
bibliophile if ..." comments, especially the one about the flash drives.
The pickiest numismatic literature collector I know was John Ford. As soon as the December issue of The Numismatist was published, I sent him a pristine set of the year's issues, carefully wrapped. This was after sending several individual issues during the year when I received irate phone calls describing what the Post Office had done to the current issue. In the end, it was easier to send the whole year at once for John's library.
The pickiest numismatic literature collector I know was John Ford. As soon as the December issue of The Numismatist was published, I sent him a pristine set of the year's issues, carefully wrapped. This was after sending several individual issues during the year when I received irate phone calls describing what the Post Office had done to the current issue. In the end, it was easier to send the whole year at once for John's library.
I told Nancy my hero is former Asylum editor E. Tomlinson
Fort. Tom MARRIED a librarian (E-Sylum subscriber Gosia Fort), who has a
healthy tolerance for books in the house. But I.ll bet she still rolls her
eyes when more coin books come in the door.
I know what MY wife will say whenever a new box shows up at our door - "What did you buy NOW?" Usually I say (truthfully), that the books are review copies (and not a purchase taking bread off the family table). But do you think she'd believe that numismatic publishers who've been dead for a century were sending me review copies from beyond the grave? Mebbe not...
I know what MY wife will say whenever a new box shows up at our door - "What did you buy NOW?" Usually I say (truthfully), that the books are review copies (and not a purchase taking bread off the family table). But do you think she'd believe that numismatic publishers who've been dead for a century were sending me review copies from beyond the grave? Mebbe not...
THE BOOK BAZARRE
Wayne Homren, Editor
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