Hey Ed, you can show me that new book you bought on eBay. It was rough, but I'd never even seen a copy before. Destry
Destry: This little book in the rough is the Holy Grail that completes my pre-WWI Shooting Flying library. Surely you recall me lamenting my stupid move in NYC Oct '05 when I took a book-buying side trip from Julia's gun auction in NH and had a copy in my hand at the not unreasonable price of $2,500; I passed on it for the time being to conserve cash for Jim Parker's Parkers. When I got home I called the dealer, James Cummins, and got the double bad news: "The book was bought yesterday by an institution." (Double in the sense that what I preceived as the last surviving copy went into the black hole of curatorship, never to be offered for sale again.) This copy merely needs to be recased. I am very pleased. EDM
