[Rarebooks] [topic] The Extreme and Terrible Power of Auctions

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Well well well...

a few weeks ago we sold a small pamphlet on Ebay- the program to the 1983 
St. Botolph Club Award Dinner, which was honoring poet Richard Wilbur.

Yesterday Richard Wilbur won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, worth $100,000...

That's not bad money for poetry. It's almost as much as you can make 
selling books on the internet (or so I am told).

We congratulate Mr. Wilbur, whose talent and continuous hard work over the 
past four decades obviously had at least a little to do with this latest 
honor, but we'd be remiss not to point out our pathfinding, nay, 
**Groundbreaking** work on his behalf by auctioning that 1983 program on 
Ebay for $4.25 two weeks ago.

Ah, the Awesome and Terrible Power of Auctions!

I am awed and humbled.

-Forrest
Trendsetter & (idiot)Savant

our current soon-to-be-Earth-Shaking auctions-
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