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Welcome to my personal eBay corner of cyberspace! For almost ten years now, have been running eBay auctions from home, thus I'm constantly searching for that next little printed something or other which will place a smile on my face, and with a bit of luck, some added coin in my pockets. Yet I must say, even after 30 years working with used books, paper collectables and miscellaneous ephemera, seldom does a day pass without discovering some new and fascinating item I never knew existed. Now I ask, do I have a great job or what?! Normally I will post a fresh batch of fairly diverse eBay auctions each and every week, endeavoring my level best to present each item clearly, accurately and thoughtfully. All too often, I spend extra time on descriptions when encountering some interesting historical tidbit or other that I want to share with my customers. (or more likely, simply to amuse myself!) Thus, I would certainly encourage you to browse through my auctions from week to week, and if you perhaps don’t find something to bid upon this time around, I hope to have at least put a smile on your face, while enticing you to check back regularly for future auctions offered by thebookmonger |
Thank you for your patronage!
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Sample My Stuff... Item Start End Price Title High Bidder/Status 220458360501 Jul-26-09 Feb-21-10 18:31:43 $4.95 VIGILANTES Of MONTANA Triumph Of Law & Order ~ 1950ed Available 270433915850 Jul-26-09 Feb-21-10 19:18:30 $4.95 VAN GOGH In SAINT REMY & AUVERS ~ 1986ed In COLOR, DJ Available 270526476685 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 17:15:29 $19.95 ARCHBISHOP LAMY: EPOCH MAKER Of Santa Fe ~ 1st 1936ed No Bids Yet 220551687766 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 17:25:22 $19.95 GRAND LAKE COLORADO In The OLDEN DAYS ~ 1971ed PHOTOS No Bids Yet 220551690986 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 17:35:24 $9.95 INDIAN CAPTIVITY Of MARY KINNAN 1791-94 Tragedy, ILLUST s***h 
270526485010 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 17:45:23 $19.95 PUEBLO ADVENTURE AMONG ZUNI INDIANS ~ Ltd 1970ed ILLUST No Bids Yet 270526488408 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 17:55:23 $19.95 DAKOTA PANORAMA: Historical Overview, SIGNED 1st 1961ed No Bids Yet 220551700477 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:05:25 $9.95 MARK TWAIN CONCERNING SKATING & MRS TWAIN'S SHOE, ILLUS No Bids Yet 220551703952 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:15:23 $19.95 OREGON TRAIL: Following History Along Highways, 1954ed No Bids Yet 270526497565 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:18:18 $20.50 EARLY HISTORY Of AMERICAN FORK UTAH ~1st 1945ed, ILLUST e***n 
220551707496 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:25:22 $9.95 ACROSS THE PLAINS In 1862 WILLIAM SMEDLEY ~ Ltd 1962ed No Bids Yet 270526503501 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:35:46 $9.95 JOURNAL Of ZADOC LONG 1800-73: Maine Storekeeper ILLUST No Bids Yet 220551710949 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:35:59 $19.95 DIARY Of OVERLAND To CALIFORNIA During 1849 GOLD RUSH a***d 220551713979 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:45:23 $19.95 FEUD On The COLORADO Rival Explorers, SIGNED 1st 1955ed No Bids Yet 270526508059 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:50:46 $19.95 INDIANS Of PIKE's PEAK REGION COLORADO ~ 1970ed ILLUST No Bids Yet 270526509315 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 18:55:22 $19.95 HAND-BOOK TO ARIZONA From 1877 ~ ILLUST 1970ed Reissue No Bids Yet 270526512877 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:05:22 $30.00 MY LIFE On NEW MEXICO FRONTIER 1882-97 PHOTOS, In DJ 4***4 270526512979 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:05:41 $19.95 LATTER-DAY SAINTS EMIGRANTS' GUIDE To SALT LAKE In 1848 No Bids Yet 270526516153 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:15:22 $9.95 NATION Of The WILLOWS: Among Havasupai Indians In 1882 No Bids Yet 270526520263 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:25:22 $9.95 QUEST Of The MOUNT Of The SNOWY CROSS 1st 1952, In DJ No Bids Yet 220551728539 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:30:02 $19.95 PEYOTISM AMONG The INDIANS Of The WEST ~ 1984ed PHOTOS No Bids Yet 270526522157 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:30:45 $19.50 SERMONS On SEVERAL SUBJECTS By SAMUEL CLARKE ~ 1749ed 3***h 
220551730239 Feb-04-10 Feb-14-10 19:35:23 $19.95 U.S. ARMY In COMANCHE INDIAN COUNTRY 1845 ~ COLOR ILLUS No Bids Yet 270527975467 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 13:29:11 $4.95 JOSEPH CHARLESS: PRINTER In The WESTERN COUNTRY, ILLUST No Bids Yet 270527985401 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 13:49:09 $4.95 WE POINTED THEM NORTH: Cowpuncher Recollections ~ ILLUS No Bids Yet 270527994476 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 14:09:08 $4.95 BUFFALO BILL & The PONY EXPRESS ~ circa 1920ed, ILLUST No Bids Yet 220553226044 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 14:29:08 $4.95 MYSELF IN THE WATER Western Photographs Of John Hillers No Bids Yet 270528010824 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 14:49:09 $4.95 SKETCH Of SAM BASS The BANDIT ~ 1st 1956ed In DJ, ILLUS No Bids Yet 220553243667 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 15:09:09 $0.95 JAMES W. CONNELLA: PIONEER EDITOR ~ 1st 1972ed ILLUST No Bids Yet 270528025146 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 15:29:08 $4.95 PRINTING Of 1872 "DEADY CODE" Into OREGON LAW ~ 1962ed No Bids Yet 270528039322 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 16:14:49 $4.95 PIKE's PEAK GOLD SEEKERS: Adventure & Suffering In 1859 No Bids Yet 270528053014 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 17:00:11 $9.95 SILHOUETTES Of CHARLES THOMAS Of COLORADO Signed 1959ed No Bids Yet 220553289478 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 17:20:05 $0.95 OREGON TRAIL Prairie & Rocky Montain 1848 Life ~ ILLUS No Bids Yet 270528084591 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:16:06 $4.95 UNCLE WIGGILY & The BLACK CRICKET 10 Stories ~ 1943ed No Bids Yet 220553313477 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:26:08 $4.95 IN A SPRING GARDEN: Haiku Children Poems ~ 1965ed In DJ No Bids Yet 220553316778 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:36:05 $4.95 Hungery HONEY BEAR 1964ed "FUZZY FLOCKED" & COLOR ILLUS No Bids Yet 270528090788 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:38:08 $4.95 LITTLE BROWN TEDDY ~ Whitman Giant Books, 1938ed ILLUST No Bids Yet 220553320306 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:46:04 $4.95 LITTLE LAME PRINCE & His Traveling Cloak ~ 1900ed ILLUS No Bids Yet 270528093703 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:48:07 $9.95 MORE REALLY SO STORIES & BIOGRAPHIES 1929ed COLOR ILLUS No Bids Yet 220553322967 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 18:53:33 $19.95 MARSE CHAN: TALE Of OLD VIRGINIA by PAGE, 1897ed ILLUST No Bids Yet 270528098743 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 19:03:34 $9.95 MOONSHINE In The OZARKS DURING PROHIBITION DAYS ~ ILLUS No Bids Yet 270528103122 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 19:15:08 $9.95 STORY Of LITTLE BLACK SAMBO by HELEN BANNERMAN ~ In DJ! a***a 
270528105595 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 19:22:29 $19.95 HISTORY Of HICKORY COUNTY, HERMITAGE MO ~ 1907ed PHOTOS No Bids Yet 220553338165 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 19:38:32 $19.95 COMPLETE WORKS Of ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, In 6 Vols No Bids Yet 220553344772 Feb-07-10 Feb-14-10 20:01:15 $9.95 ANDY WARHOL's INDEX BOOK ~ 1st 1967ed ~ Very SCARCE! No Bids Yet 270529137541 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 17:26:32 $9.95 BRUNDIBAR Czech Opera MAURICE SENDAK ~ 1st 2003ed In DJ No Bids Yet 270529141042 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 17:36:29 $9.95 GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell ~ In DJ No Bids Yet 270529144350 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 17:46:33 $9.95 IVANHOE Retold For Young People by Sullivan 1910ed ILLU No Bids Yet 270529147561 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 17:56:28 $9.95 LIFE TURNS MAN UP & DOWN: Useful Advice & Mad English No Bids Yet 270529151334 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:06:29 $9.95 OL' MAN ADAM & HIS CHILLIN: God Walks The Earth, 1928ed No Bids Yet 220554306448 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:16:28 $19.95 PIONEER DAZE History Seattle & Puget Sound 1930ed ILLUS No Bids Yet 220554309318 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:25:26 $9.95 ANYONE CAN BAKE Royal Baking Powder Co, 1929ed In COLOR No Bids Yet 220554309654 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:26:28 $9.95 SECRETS Of BLUE CLIFF RECORD Zen Commentary 1st Ed, DJ No Bids Yet 270529161958 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:34:42 $9.95 HUMOROUS READINGS & RECITATIONS In PROSE & VERSE 1889ed No Bids Yet 220554317324 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:48:30 $19.95 BILL TRAYLOR: DEEP BLUES 1854-1949 ~ 1999ed COLOR ILLUS No Bids Yet 270529166954 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 18:49:12 $4.95 AMERICAN TOYS 1930-1980 Collectors Guide ~ COLOR PHOTOS No Bids Yet 220554327106 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 19:17:31 $9.95 WONDER Of AMERICAN TOYS 1920-1950 ~ COLOR PHOTOS, In DJ No Bids Yet 270529181231 Feb-09-10 Feb-14-10 19:29:45 $9.95 STORYBOOK CULTURE Popular Children's Books Art ~ COLOR! No Bids Yet
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"Le buste survit a la cite"
THUS WROTE the poet Theophile Gautier, or, in George Santayana's unforgettable translation, "The bust outlasts the citadel."
A book is so fragile in appearance that a child can tear it up and destroy it; it can be tossed into the fire (not to mention its author, sometimes, for greater surety). It is so naked, under its ludicrous leather covering; it is a diminutive heap of paper, and much like insects we cannot crush because they are too small. By what mystery, then, can this miniature thing resist the powers of destruction? Like insects, you reply, by power of multiplication. Print one thousand copies of a book and it can laugh at danger. Like an army of fresh rested troops it moves forward over the battlefield of time; it may be instantly decimated by constant enemy fire, but it knows its objective and is certain of attaining it, if with only a handful of survivors. The printed book possesses power above all other powers, a force practically invincible, nay, invincible!
No power of persuasion is comparable to that of the book. The most gifted orator dominates and carries a crowd away for a moment, thanks to his unaccountable prestige of voice or glance. Later, its admiring tribute paid, the crowd does as it wills.
The book, on the other hand, is modest and mute. It makes no demands. It bears abandonment, mutilation and oblivion. It always has the last word! It deposits in the human mind germs over which nothing can prevail. One day, despite the will and prejudice of their host, these germs develop and live, and finally modify the very spirit they inhabit. Born of thought and feeling, books in their turn create other thoughts and other feelings that end logically in other books, and so ad infinitum. Civilization, ceaselessly modified by books, proves to be the reflection of books in the works of men. Books are the fathers and masters of civilization; their control is essentially magical.
That is why books have always inspired tyrants with horror and they strive their utmost to destroy them. Omar burned the library at Alexandria; the Inquisition burned the writings of heretics; Hitler burned the books of men who did not believe in Nazism. But the book defiantly laughs at assault and wrath. The book lives when its enemies long since are dead; it is ever prepared to recreate a new world of free, intelligent, and happy men.
From the Preface by Francis de Miomandre in A Code for the Collector of Beautiful Books, New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1936
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others..."
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
The Bibliomaniac's Prayer"But if, O Lord, it pleaseth Thee
To keep me in temptation's way,
I humbly ask that I may be
Most notably beset to-day;
Let my temptation be a book,
Which I shall purchase, hold and keep,
Whereon, when other men shall look,
They'll wail to know I got it cheap."
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