[Rarebooks] Re: [b] FS: W.B. Yeats: THREE THINGS, 1/500 Signed

[David Klappholz]

I assume that Charles means "increasingly uncommon on the market."  It's 
pretty clear that desirable material has that property.  For example, good 
Samuel Johnson material was quite a bit more common (on the market) before 
the resurgence of interest in the early 20th century.  By now incredibly 
little ms material and very few association copies come to market as so 
much has gone into libraries.  The same likely holds true for Hemingway 
material, but, probably, to a lesser extent.  In my own narrow little 
corner of the collecting world, material on book collecting, both private 
and institutional, and on antiquarian bookselling, material dribbles in far 
more slowly than it did 20 years ago...and it's not that I already have 
everything because I still buy good association copies of titles of which I 
already have multiple association copies...and, of course, every letter or 
ms is unique.

...and then there's the fact that fragile material can deteriorate to the 
point of undesirability.

Dave


At 12:52 PM 10/3/2004, Bill Cole wrote:




>Can anyone explain that to me how a book like this becomes "increasingly
>uncommon"?
>
>As far as I know, the Catholic Church isn't ordering it burnt.
>
>Are people eating copies of it?
>
>Best
>
>Bill in Barcelona
>
>
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>
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>On 10/3/2004 6:05 PM, "Charles Agvent" <agvent at erols.com> wrote:
>
> > YEATS,  W. B. THREE THINGS. London: Faber & Faber  1929.
> >        First Edition.  Original  thin   gilt-lettered  blue  boards.
> >        Yeats's  single poem is illustrated with two drawings, one in
> >        color,  by  Gilbert Spencer. Copy #455 of only  500  numbered
> >        copies  SIGNED  by the author, constituting the  Large  Paper
> >        Edition  printed by the Curwen Press. As always, the  fragile
> >        spine suffers  some loss of paper, in this case only two thin
> >        strips  less than an inch in length. Still Near Fine for this
> >        fragile piece, increasingly uncommon.                $1200.00
>
>
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