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...course, plenty of organized science-fiction activity greeted the fans. Discussion panels included authors such as Frank Herbert, Gordon Dickson, John Brunner and Larry Niven. Dealers offered used and out-of-print books, records, games, posters and T-shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...
People come into his store asking for an amazing variety of out-of-print books ("O.P. Fiction," as it says on his card), and he can tell them immediately what he has and where it is. "A history of music by Lang?" asks one woman. "I used to have a few but I sold them," he says. "Do you have anything on horses?" says a young man. "Downstairs, all the way to the back and to your left," Mr. Starr answers. Does he know where every book is? "Of course." How does he remember? "You have to have a good...
...shop because it was too expensive), the recent Selected Essays, and Genesis that undiscovered long poem (two hundred pages in all), rival to Notebook, Patterson, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; as I studied them, it occured to me that Schwartz is not read, that these limited editions and out-of-print books have passed through the hands of less than two thousand readers...
...your way to amassing a private Treasury of this precious metal." The first medal sells for $1, and the rest in the series cost $10 each. But 525 grains of silver are worth only about $2 in the wholesale market. The Silver Coalition Ltd. offers a series of out-of-print U.S. currency struck on a small silver ingot. The first ingot of the series, issued in a limited edition of 10,000, contains 20 ounces of silver and sells for $200. The real wholesale market worth of 20 ounces of silver is about $36. Typically, the value...
...store will make way for a terminal in Washington's new subway system; but that is not what killed it. Such shops are simply no longer profitable. Books require space that is more and more costly in downtown buildings. The choice out-of-print and rare books are being absorbed by new colleges and universities, especially since tax laws now make it more profitable for collectors to donate their libraries to institutions than to sell them. Fewer Americans collect books now, and more and more often they get them from book clubs, or buy paperbacks...