Hi Shawn I have a couple of comments about the book. The book has not been signed by LaPaz but someone has just put his name in it. For some reason it was and I believe still is a common practice to have a grad student or possibly a secretary do this. I have several examples of this in my library. I also have one I believe genuine copy of a signed book of his in my library. The book is Space Nomads. As for the interest in the book I have three words Nininger, Nininger, Nininger. In other words most other signed books seem to have little additional value either monetarily or historically if they are signed. I do consider myself somewhat of a "meteorite historian" and know there are several other amateurs out there as well. So I do appreciate the types of items that fall into this category there just are not a significant amount of others that find them important enough to collect. As for the University of New Mexico my guess is they would not be too interested in the book as they have limited funds and limited space. Though as I mentioned it would only be a guess.
Mike Mike Jensen Meteorites 16730 E Ada PL Aurora, CO 80017-3137 USA 720-949-6220 IMCA 4264 website: www.jensenmeteorites.com On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Shawn Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Lister, > > Here is something I found on the Internet about the book called Meteors by C. > P. Oliver , published in 1925, which was highly regarded in the early days of > the study of meteors and meteorites. Here is a link > > http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/11388383_xtf3A#800281843_WPKqj > > to an original copy printed in 1925, from Lincoln LaPaz personal library, > which has also been autographed by Dr LaPaz. For those who don't know, Dr > LaPaz was the founder of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of > New Mexico. Within the book there are several pages with notation marks made > by Dr LaPaz and autographed by him. > > Now would this book have any historical significance to meteorite > historians or the University of New Mexico? Does something of this > nature come up often in the meteorite market and is there a collectiblity > for items like this for collecters or institutions? > > Shawn Alan > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
