Imagine... ... to own a book that was printed in 1584 and to be explained by a collector's colleague unseen that it is a "bastard" copy.
... to find stacks of dusty pamphlet from the magician Harry Houdini. For decades after their publication in 1924, they are still sold by one dollar for their original price. Then one day in 1990 a copy appears in an auction gallery in New York and is sold for $ seven hundred.
... negotiates about the purchase of a world-class collection of less frequent books and learns that the owner in England has decided to sell them to a neighbor who grabs the books in the trunk of his car and takes them to his castle. A few years later, the collection appears in Kansas!
These are just three of the fascinating reports that appear in Inclined Toward Magic: Encounters with books, collectors and summoners, the second and last volume of David Meyer's book collection.
The accompanying tape, which is identical to Memoirs of a Book Snake: Forty Years of Seeking and Saving Old Books, which Larry McMurtry described as "a charming, convincing and accurate presentation of what a book cout was doing".
"In a very worth reading, entertaining style, Meyer tells every 'find' as a first -class adventure." - Publishers Weekly.
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Economy shipping (2-3 working days)
flat rate Fr. 7.50
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From CHF 100.– goods value, free of charge
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Additional costs at the request of the customers:
Saturday delivery (CHF 14.50): A shipping option of the Swiss Post can also be chosen for orders that arrive from us before 3:30 p.m. The packages will then also be delivered on Saturday! This service is subject to a fee, even if the value of the goods is above CHF 100.–.
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Orders in the EU (Germany, Austria, ...) are only possible due to the new EU import regulations from a value of CHF 150.
Shipments abroad only make sense for products that you do not get in your country! We have a partner in Germany for magic articles, here you get almost everything without discount problems!
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