The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

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A. Edward Newton. The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

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THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING. AND. KINDRED AFFECTIONS

I. BOOK-COLLECTING ABROAD

II. BOOK-COLLECTING AT HOME

III. OLD CATALOGUES AND NEW PRICES

IV “ASSOCIATION” BOOKS AND FIRST EDITIONS

V “WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN”

VI. JAMES BOSWELL—HIS BOOK

VII. A LIGHT-BLUE STOCKING

VIII. A RIDICULOUS PHILOSOPHER

IX. A GREAT VICTORIAN

X. TEMPLE BAR THEN AND NOW

XI. A MACARONI PARSON

XII. OSCAR WILDE

XIII. A WORD IN MEMORY

INDEX

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A. Edward Newton

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Six months later, to my great surprise, the collection was again offered me by a bookseller in New York at a price just fifty per cent in advance of the price I had been asked for it in London. The man who showed it to me was amazed when I told him just when he had bought it and where, and the price he had paid for it. I made a guess that it was ten per cent below the figure at which it had been offered to me. “I am prepared,” I said, “to pay you the same price I was originally asked for it in London. You have doubtless shown it to many of your customers and have not found them as foolish in their enthusiasm over Johnson as I am. You have had your chance to make a big profit; why not accept a small one?” There was some discussion; but as I saw my man weakening, my firmness increased, and it finally ended by my handing him a check and carrying off the treasure.

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