Things That Set My Book-Lovin' Heart To Palpitating

[madwriter]

Today I have held in my trembling hands a first edition of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, a first edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunt For the Snark, a signed first edition of Robert Bloch's Psycho, a signed typewritten poem by Charles Bukowski, and an almost complete collection of first editions by the 19th century explorer Sir Richard

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[tithenai]

!!!

Explain!

[jonathangarrett]

Very cool all around!

For wedding gifts I've suggested people could get us antiquarian copies of several of Mark Twain's works, but first editions? Man, that is fancy!

[j_cheney]

You're such a first editions fanboy!

[mabfan]

Wow!

Um, how? Do you now own them?

[mmegaera]

Wow. And I thought my ILL of one of the original copies of the report of the 1878 Hayden Expedition to Yellowstone was cool.