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Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:11 am
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| I am so thankful my grandparents never got rid of thier book collection and left it to me...i ended up with with alot of first printings of Edgar allan poe short stories as they were originally printed in the magazines of the time and gift books,,,as well as first editions of lewis carroll and Charles dickens among others |
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:34 am
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THIS warrants a reply.
Wow, as a book addict that is amazing Tshof,
I'd love to see pics of some of the old Poe mags.
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:28 pm
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| yeah im very addicted to reading anything and everything i can get my hands on...just recently i picked up a copy of Paradise lost from John Milton its dated 1727. i love collecting books especially old ones and first editions if i can get them |
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:23 pm
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Holy shit! I bet that Paradise Lost goes for a pretty penny.
Good find. Hold onto that stuff. In all honesty, I'd consider it priceless.
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Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:55 pm
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I'd be so torn if I got those, on whether to sell or keep.
GREAT haul, either way! |
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:33 pm
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lol yeah i wont sell it in fact i wanna hang on to my stuff so that my family in the future will have something of value.
I also have first printings of Edgar allan poes short stories in the original magazines they first appeard including the Raven and Murders in the Rue morge and pit and the pendulum...My grandparents were avid readers and collected books which im lucky to have inhearited.. i wish i had a way of posting some of them in pics on here for yall to see |
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Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:01 pm
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I am extremely jealous of you.
Congratulations on the treasures you were given.
Cherish them, or I'll hunt you down.  |
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:16 am
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Yeah, that's really neat. Odd reaction I had reading this but I can smell the old books. That's a smell you don't forget.
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Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:16 pm
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| For the life of me i cant understand why some of these old books havent been turned into films yet like Paradise lost i think would Rock as a movie if done right |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:51 pm
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| Tshoffie wrote: | | For the life of me i cant understand why some of these old books havent been turned into films yet like Paradise lost i think would Rock as a movie if done right |
A movie adaptation of PARADISE LOST is actually in the works at Legendary Pictures with Alex Proyas currently attached to direct from a script by, most recently, Stuart Hazeldine. I, too, think that it has great cinematic potential and hope for the best. |
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:08 pm
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i would like to say thanks to my family also for sharing those books
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Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:43 am
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