tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215094492024-03-14T07:00:03.633-04:00FoggyGates -A Bookish Blog<img src="http://www.joslinhall.com/blog/cats-books-2.jpg" align="center"><p><i>A blog from the Cataloging Cave at Joslin Hall Rare Books about<br>art, antiques, books, gardens, food & random items of interest...</i><p></p></p>Mad Booksellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939604620272757646noreply@blogger.comBlogger464125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21509449.post-26255351246807566352014-07-15T11:34:00.001-04:002014-07-15T11:35:15.918-04:00A New Summer Catalog-<br />
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Two weeks spent watching World Cup Football on the widescreen in the Cataloging Cave left the Book Elves quite bitter about the fact that the lawn in front of the Cave, though serving as quite an adequate croquet field, is very much too small for football. Such problems are not the sort of thing that bother the Book Elves for long, though, and they soon came up with a plan for a new game- Extreme Full Contact Croquet, played nonstop with a 90-minute clock and everybody hitting their balls, and each other, at the same time. It's not the sort of game you will see featured on Wide World of Sports anytime soon, but we are working on a proposal for a cable tv show called "Stupid Things Drunk Elves Do with Big Mallets".<br />
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But before the Book Elves departed, en masse, for the Emergency Room with an assortment of contusions, concussions, and broken egos, they finished our latest catalog-<br />
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CATALOG #350: A Selection of Curious Ephemera for Summer, 2014<br />
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<a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog350.pdf" target="_blank">which can be viewed or downloaded as a .pdf file here</a>.</div>
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<span class="userContent">1881 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention
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Society, the longtime champion of birds and their nests, would not be
founded until 1886, and in the 1880s there were no Federal laws and only
a smattering of state laws, protecting songbirds and their nests and
eggs. The MSPCA was founded in 1868, the second-oldest humane society in
the United States, and among those on its first board of directors were
John Quincy Adams II and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Poster. 9.5"x15". Minor
wear, light soil. [40660] $250</span></span>Mad Booksellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939604620272757646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21509449.post-32528280051776852292014-05-14T06:35:00.005-04:002014-05-14T07:30:33.010-04:00A New Catalog-<pre style="background-color: white; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap !important;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, despite the best efforts of the Book Elves, another Bookin’! is ready to unleash upon an unsuspecting public. Their efforts included a 7 day-long May Day Festival which featured a succession of Maypoles, each pole having a tendency to conveniently disappear during the evening just before it was time to light the nightly Mayday Festival bonfire. Excuse me- “May Day” Festival, not “Mayday” Festival, though after about 5 days of it, “Mayday” seemed more appropriate... The Book Elves have grown tired of that joke, but I’m going to keep telling it, because I’m the one holding their bail-bond certificates. Those were another result of the week-long celebrations.</span></div>
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Hanover; E.A. Allen, Printer: 1840.</div>
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A 9-stanza song which begins-<br />
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"And is it so, that we no more,<br />
Together meet in classic halls?<br />
No longer search for hidden lore<br />
Within these long accustom'd walls?"<br />
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The apparently original composition goes on to hit most of the points such odes do- we met strangers, part lifelong friends, so long to the good, easy life, and so on, but also strikes on one important point nearer everyday life in the 19th century than the 20th or 21st-<br />
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But retrospection brings to mind<br />
Names once recorded with our own,<br />
Who now have answer'd Death's demand<br />
And though they live, from us they're gone".<br />
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The last lines show that life in rural New Hampshire bordering Vermont is much the same now as it was then-<br />
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Farewell, these Academic shades,<br />
These quiet walks - these sweet alcoves-<br />
These tow'ring hills and hidden glades,<br />
These pleasant streams, and shady groves".<br />
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Marquis Lafayette Holt (1845-1934) and Rocene Sherwin (1844-1929) were married on March 20, 1864 in Mason, New Hampshire. Marquis was serving in the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment at the time; on August 24, 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Sargent Major of Company A, and he ended the war as a Lieutenant in Company E. After the war he became a minister and moved to Nebraska, where he is listed in 1880 as a reverend affiliated with the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States, serving in Plainfield, Knox County. He is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Neligh, Nebraska.<br />
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The 3-stanza, 12-line poem makes several references to the ongoing war- "We wish you, dear friends, joy unmixed with sorrow / And years of contentment when peace's bright to-morrow / Has spread her broad mantle o'er all our dark land / Then, as now, may you trust in an all-guiding hand". Single sheet. 4.25"x5.25", soil. [40049] $100-<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the dark days of January give way to February’s ever-brightening afternoons, and weather-prognosticating rodents strut their stuff for the camera lights, I find myself oddly transported back by echoes of fading holiday carols which tinkle in my brain- Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree -what the heck are you still doing up in the living room? </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <i>plan</i> was for the Book Elves to have it removed by the Sooper-Dooper Bowl, at the very latest. And yet it sits, dripping brown needles. More ominously, the concept of a Valentines Day Tree has been suggested, with red paper hearts hot-glued to the tinder-dry needles. I fear an event more reminiscent of the 4th of July, with blazing Roman candles... Boxes, boxes, where did the Book Elves hide the ornament boxes? Oh, right- they used them for sledding.</span></span></div>
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A label issued by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Line and featuring three of their star ships- the Bremen, Europa, and Columbus. The Norddeutscher Lloyd was a German shipping company founded Bremen in 1857. It became one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, competing with the English liners for the North American trade. All post-World War One liners, these three ships met ignominious fates: Columbus was launched in 1924, and scuttled by her crew off the coast of Virginia in 1939; Bremen was launched in 1929 and burned at her dock in 1941. Europa was launched in 1928 and scrapped by the Allies in 1945.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Mose Skinner's Grand
Peace Jubilee and Jewsharp Oratorio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Boston; New England News Company:
1869. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A biting satire of Boston's famous
National Peace Jubilee, which was organized
by Patrick Gilmore and took place in Boston
on June 15, 1869. The Jubilee was by all
accounts a complete success, with more than
11,000 performers, including 100 choral
groups, an orchestra of 525 musicians, and a
486-piece wind band. The Jubilee, in fact,
became the "high-water mark in the
influence of the band in American </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">life" (Crawford, </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">America's Musical Life:
A History</span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">But before any of this took place the size
and scope, as well as the concept of
celebrating peace with Southerners (with
whom there had been some recent
"unpleasantness"), created doubters. An
excellent example is this satirical booklet by
James E. Brown, writing under the name
Mose Skinner, the text of which first
appeared as a series of columns in the Wide
World news </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12pt;">paper. Aside from his obvious </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12pt;">doubts about the possibility that such a grand undertaking could ever succeed, one sees doubts
about whether it even -</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">should</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12pt;">- succeed, the Jubilee being only a few years removed from the
bloodiest war ever fought on American soil. </span><br />
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toward the South, and create a feeling of confidence, Confederate scrip will be considered legal
tender, on the five days of the Festival, - and any person passing a greenback (on the sidewalk)
will be subject to arrest. One-armed and one-legged soldiers are requested to retire into the
country, in order that their presence may not cause any unpleasant recollections to arise in the
minds of our Southern friends". Ouch.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">January is really the cruelest month- there are only few </span><i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">actual</i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> holidays for the Book Elves to celebrate, so they fall back on “second-tier” celebrations, for better or (usually) worse. One “holiday” they are especially fond of is January 3rd's Fruitcake Toss Day which coincides (coincidentally?) with Humiliation Day. We have barely recovered from Bean Day on the 6th before it's time for Bubble Bath Day on the 8th. Play God Day (January 9) has been permanently banned in the Cataloging Cave, but the 10th's Peculiar People Day is always a good time. The less said about Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day on the 12th the better, likewise the 14th’s Dress Up Your Pet Day -that may be the next day we have to ban. National Popcorn Day (19th) and National Pie Day (23rd) seem to lead naturally into National Kazoo Day, January 28th. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">A rather dramatic pair of hand- painted Christmas, 1915 cards, each showing a war scene and mounted with a photographs of what appears to be a French hospital unit. One card, titled "Noel 1915 - Le Eparges" shows a desolate, snow- covered street, surmounted by pine cones. The second card, titled "Noel 1915 - Malines", shows a burning cathedral, surmounted by ivy leaves. Les Eparges was the site of a fierce battle in April, 1915. Malines is a Dutch-speaking city in Flanders which was the scene of fighting in August, 1914, and numerous accounts of German atrocities against civilians were circulated. </span></div>
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card has a humorous, if doggerel, German verse on the back relating to the scene on the front of
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woman, a happy comet raining a star shower on a group of umbrellaed onlookers, and a happy
comet on a bike being chased down the road by a German soldier, complete with pickelhaube
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Neither snow, nor sleet, nor dark of night, will keep the Book Elves from finishing another Bookin’ - the Christmas party the pretty girl elves over at The Ale Shack threw almost did though... but a promise to pay for all the damages, and replacing the missing sleigh from the Town common, got everybody back to the Cataloging Cave without having to deal with nasty words like “bail bondsman”.</div>
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So with the merry words to “Good King Sauerkraut” ringing in our ears, we wrap this catalog up with a big bow and send it on to you. It’s been fun to put together, which is why we do it every two weeks. </div>
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Well, that, and working on it keeps the Book Elves off the streets.</div>
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With Thanksgiving and the Book Elves’ Great American Turkey Fracas in the rearview mirror, we can start worrying about what they will do for Christmas. A repeat of last year’s Burning Tree Festival seems unlikely, as does any sort of revival of the “Department Store Santa Roundup & Rodeo” of ’09. And, as far as I know, we managed to intercept all the Cat Wrapping videos they ordered on Amazon. There’s no snow in the forecast, so we also don’t have to keep an eye out for any of their notorious “Frieda Does Frosty” pornographic snow scenes on the front lawn. Vigilance remains necessary, though- just this morning UPS delivered 250 squirrel-sized Santa costumes. And a catapult.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wonnerful, wonnerful -it’s time for another edition of Bookin’, as we swing into Fall with some of our favorite books and ephemera, brought to you again this week by our very own Book Elves! They went on the internet yesterday and joined something called the Thanksgiving Turkey Liberation Front, and then liberated 27 Thanksgiving turkeys. Unfortunately they seem to have missed the point of the Front’s goals, and liberated the turkeys from the freezer section of our local supermarket. </span></div>
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Well, the Cataloging Cave seems to have survived Halloween intact, and most of the Book Elves made bail in time to get this catalog together. I know I say this every time, but there’s some interesting stuff in this one. Whale oil, fake arrowheads, weird sunflowers, snuff, ostriches and croquet mallets -and more. I can’t decide whether my favorite quote from these items is the woman who compared early American rug hookers to Matisse, or this one- </div>
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"The savage who tattoos his flesh is a painter, the barbarian who ornaments his club with carvings is a sculptor, the Indian who constructs his wigwam in the forest is an architect, the cannibal who sings in triumph while his enemy is burning at the stake is a musician, and all are artists." </div>
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<a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-4.pdf" target="_blank">You can see the latest issue of Bookin'! here</a>.</div>
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We are pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of <b><a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-3.pdf" target="_blank">A Grave Affair</a></b>, a special issue of our <i>Bookin</i>’! catalog series, featuring books and other material about gravestones, epitaphs, mourning customs and related topics (also referred to by the Book Elves here in the Cataloging Cave as “The Death Catalog”). This is always one of my favorite catalogs to put together, and I hope you find something that entices, pleases or surprises you. </div>
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<a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-3.pdf" target="_blank">You can see the catalog here.</a></div>
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Mad Booksellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939604620272757646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21509449.post-46625598969461249762013-10-25T14:09:00.001-04:002013-10-25T14:10:08.722-04:00Fraudulent Frogs???From our new <a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-2.pdf" target="_blank">Bookin'!</a> catalog-<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">New Orleans: 1936</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A typewritten letter on the company’s very graphic stationary, dated May
19, 1936, signed by S. Schutt, forwarding information about raising frogs for the company. The
stationary includes pictures of the company offices, a tadpole, a frog, a barrel of live frogs, and
cans of </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">frog a la king </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and frogs' legs. Alas, the enterprise came to grief. The Sandusky Register
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Two frog specialists who opened a school here and then hopped to New Orleans were held there
today for transfer to Toledo to face a federal charge that their mail-order course in commercial
breeding of the amphibians constituted a fraud. The two, Albert Broel, formerly of Detroit, and
Sylvester Schutt of Fremont, denied any guilt and were held in lieu-of $2,500 bonds for return to
Ohio, where their undertaking began in 1933. Postal officials, who obtained their indictment
secretly last December, charged that Broel and Schutt offered for $47.50 cash or $157.60 in
installments to instruct would-be frog-farmers in a business which they professed would 'yield
the student up to $100,000 in two years'. The officials said such profits sounded too high, even
though each graduate student was promised a pair of frogs free from the farm here. After the
indictment, Broel and Schutt were discovered to have left Fremont and opened the American
Frog Canning Co., in New Orleans. Broel, who said he was a Polish army officer during the
World War, owned the farm here and maintained a downtown office when the school functioned.</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"
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A handbill for the Brooklyn Museum's September 8-October 15, 1944 exhibition of prints by Jose Guadalupe Posada. Their August 18, 1944 press release for the exhibition explained:<br />
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"<i>The Brooklyn Museum will begin its fall exhibition season with a large show entitled POSADA — PRINTMAKER TO THE MEXICAN PEOPLE (September 8-October 15). Lent by the Direccion General de Educacion Estetica, Mexico, it contains over six hundred prints, blocks and photographic enlargements and will be installed in four large galleries on the second floor. The first great printmaker in the New World, Posada’s gigantic production of twenty-thousand subjects reached the remotest village. The Mexican people well understood his art, because he re-stated with simplicity and vigor their own legends and songs, their own inarticulate hopes and aspirations. Through the medium of his prints he was among those actively responsible in preparing the way for the 1910 Revolution. Not only a prophet of the armed-mass uprising, he was a creator of an artistic expression which reflected a new social philosophy and established the foundations for a new national art. An excellent draughtsman, his work has economy of line, boldness of contour and dramatic action. It establishes him, not as a folk artist, but as a highly competent master who portrayed his era with passionate honesty and revolutionary zeal.</i>"<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">7. [</span><span style="color: rgb(64.313730%, 3.137255%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Forgotten by History</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">] </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-weight: 700;">Victorian Dramatic Author Brochure. </span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Philadelphia. Undated, but
probably 1860s</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. An interesting piece of self-promotion by a Philadelphia author/playwright,
probably in the 1860s. The front of the brochure claims "</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS'; font-size: 12.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Established 10 Years - Bob Watt -
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- I write original songs, sketches, farces, comedies, dramas and all stage specialties to order.
Comedies and dramas revised. - Author of 'Pert', 'My Sister', 'Foiled', 'Bait', 'Zero' and many
other successful plays</span><span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">". Sadly for posterity, neither OCLC or any other source we have been able
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Well, in spite of our best efforts, another Bookin’! is ready to unleash upon an unsuspecting public. The Book Elves were going to write a little song to introduce it, but they insisted that there was only one word that rhymed with “Art” and I insisted that word wasn’t going in the song. Next week is the big Halloween Special, a.k.a. “The Death Issue”, so if you’re looking for something normal, it would be best to browse this week’s installment. Actually, to be perfectly honest, there’s nothing normal here, either. That’s sort of the point of doing the whole thing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We first published our Bookin’! series in the late 1990s, and the Book Elves (ever-ready to find a new excuse to get some overtime) have been lobbying for its return since at least 3:30 pm yesterday. Since the new(ish) .pdf format allows us to set wild our most self-indulgent production fantasies at little or no expense I naturally said, “No, of course not!”, and then they went ahead and did it anyway. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So please enjoy, and join the Book Elves as they sing their theme song:</span></div>
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<i style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Books are Nice!</i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Chaos, panic & disorder. My work </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">here is done.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Bookin-1.pdf" target="_blank">Have fun browsing the new Bookin'!</a></span></div>
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Mad Booksellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03939604620272757646noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21509449.post-2296064921198918792013-09-17T11:27:00.002-04:002013-09-17T11:27:28.103-04:00Our Latest Catalog- Books on Glass<br />
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Hobbies- everybody has one. The Book Elves have had dozens, and their latest was glass-blowing. I'd seen the cute set-ups they have at places like the Science Museum- a little bunsen-burner-type thing and some glass rods and your kids can make beads and stuff. No problem, I thought. Much better than their previous hobby, carving animals out of stumps with chain saws, I thought. And then they began to talk about blast furnaces and annealing ovens. And then they began to price blast furnaces, and then (priced out of that market) they began looking around for cheaper alternatives. Now, here's a funny, quirky thing about the American legal system: buying a blast furnace, new or used = legal. Purchasing a surplus jet engine off an ex-Soviet Mig-23 fighter jet (NATO code-name "Flogger") from a guy named "Sergei" who you met in an internet chat room on the Soldier of Fortune website = NOT legal.<br />
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But before the Book Elves got yet another update to their red-tabbed dossier in a filing cabinet at the Department of Homeland Security, they finished our latest catalog-<br />
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<b>CATALOG #346: BOOKS ON GLASS & GLASSMAKING </b></div>
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<a href="http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog346.pdf" target="_blank">which can be viewed or downloaded as a .pdf file here</a></div>
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