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October 25, 2013
Book Collection For Sale
Fabulous intermediate rare book collection for sale. Collection of authors publishing varies between 1850-1950. Authors include: A. Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Booth Tarkington, H.G. Wells, Ian Fleming, John Galsworthy, John Steinbeck, Jules Verne, Ogden Nash, Zane Grey, Sinclair Lewis, Winston Churhill, Edgar Rice Burroughs and many other collectible authors. All books are in Good or better condition.
Approximately 200 books.
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Priced at $5250.
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stephenvlahos@earthlink.net
727-735-2054
September 05, 2012
List of 17th Century Famous Authors
In England, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was still writing during part of the 17th century. Other 17th century writers include: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), John Donne (1572-1631), Ben Johnson (1572-1637) and Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1651) along with Robert Herrick (1591-1674). Other seventeenth century writers include Anne Killigrew, Joseph Addison, William Wycherley, George Herbert and John Aubre. This period includes the book which unquestionably occupies the highest place in English literature, that is the King James version of the Bible, and in poetry it includes one of the greatest figures John Milton, together with a varied assemblage of lesser lyricists.
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Collecting Books--The New Collector
The definitive, in depth book collection is on the way out. Collecting a single author's complete works and ephemera has been replaced by focusing on the key one hundred books or so in each field or genre. Visit our web site www.Bids4books.com
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. He attended but did not graduate from Stanford University (1920-1926). While writing, Steinbeck took odd jobs, he worked as a painter, caretaker, watchman, surveyor and a fruit picker. Working as a watchman of a house in the High Sierra, Steinbeck wrote his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). He received a $250 advance from his publisher.
Steinbeck was married three times. His son John had problems in later years with drugs and alcohol and died in 1991.
Steinbeck was a natural storyteller and was able to capture the feelings and lives of working people who were the central characters of his most important novels. John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He is best remembered for The Grapes of Wrath (1939). In 1943 Steinbeck moved to New York City and spent his summers at Sag Harbor.
John Steinbeck died of a heart attack on Dec.20,1968.
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The New Book Collector-List
Who is The Collector?
- Well educated and very bright, although specifically knowledgeable in his or her collecting field.
- An entrepreneur, someone who has made a great deal of money either through creating a company or in finance.
- An extremely busy person, who is fitting collecting activities in between hard driving business activities.
- Someone who does not necessarily look on their collecting purchases as an investment, but who is extremely conscious of the market and comparative values and does view the books they buy as a capital asset.
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September 04, 2012
List of 19th Century Famous Authors
Some of the most famous writers included the Russians Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekov and Fyodor Dostoevsky; The English Charles Dickens, John Keats and Jane Austen; the Scottish Sir Walter Scott; the Irish Oscar Wilde; the Americans Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain; and the French Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jules Verne and Charles Baudelaire.
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