Boy, can I sympathize with that. I joined the AF, and when I came home my mother had let my bother and sister sell all my books (mostly the old, smaller size, ACE Double SF) for pocket money. Worst of all was that the first edition of the Swiss Family Robinson was gone too. Got any idea what that would be worth today? The rare book guides back then (1960) said it was worth a thousand bucks or so. Now it is not even listed, which I am told means, "Whatever it will bring at auction". It was probably the most valuable thing I have ever owned. Even decades later I have to keep telling myself, "I only paid 99 cents for it".
mike wilson wrote: > > I used to have two tea chests full of pulp magazines, inluding pre-war > Astounding/Analog - with John W Campbell's first editorial edition. Until I > went to College and came home after the first term to find that they had been > trashed to "make space". Sigh. I could probably have bought a reasonable > house with the proceeds now. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
