THE
MANIA OF BOOK COLLECTING
A WAY TO HUNT DOWN RARE BOOKS AND SELL THEM - BIBLIOMANIA !
TRICKs of HOW TO BUY BOOKS INEXPENSIVELY, ONLINE, OFTEN A BUCK A BOOK!
HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH USED BOOKS
TIPS on GETTING KIDS TO READ
THE PAYOFF - The really bright people on the Future Highway of Life will meet your KID and think: ' this kid is smart! What dialogue! What WIT! Amazingly well INFORMED. Good judgement. Literate! I want to KNOW HIM! (HER)! Hire/ him or her. THEY will GET RESPECT! They will make the connections, get the jobs.
THE CONVERSE is also true- Your kids will shun morons, miscreants, criminals and dopers! They'll never volunteer for the military and will be in jail less often. Also, your grandkids will have a higher IQ! There's TRICKLE DOWN!
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THE VALUE OF ELDERLY NEIGHBORS. We overlook our geriatric resource,
our neighbors.
TALK TO elderly people about what life was like back when. Blacks went
through discrimination in the big cities. Jews went through it in Europe,
during the war. Americans went thru the draft for three wars, and
RATIONING back in WWII.. Admit 'I don't know much, they don't teach this
stuff in school. I'm going to start buying books, used books that are from
that period. Leave it at that. If they say, 'what would you pay? I have
books," go see them. SURF to this page on antiquarian book finders' resources:
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/verif_rare.html
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bibliomania---- Just as a man who
takes pleasure in the conquest of feminine hearts invariably finds himself
at last ensnared by the very passion which he has been using simply for
the gratification of his vanity, I am inclined to think that the element
of vanity enters, to a degree, into every phase of book collecting;
vanity is, I take it, one of the essentials to a well-balanced character---not
a prodigious vanity, but a prudent, well-governed one. But for vanity there
would be no competition in the world; without competition
there would be no progress.
bibliomania In these later days I often hear this man or that sneered at because, forsooth, he collects books without knowing what the books are about. But for my part, I say that that man bids fair to be all right; he has made a proper start in the right direction, and the likelihood is that, other things being equal, he will eventually become a lover, as well as a buyer, of books. Indeed, I care not what the beginning is, so long as it be a beginning. There are different ways of reaching the goal. Some folk go horseback via the royal road, but very many others are compelled to adopt the more tedious processes, involving rocky pathways and torn shoon and sore feet.
bibliomania So
subtle and so infectious
is this grand passion that one is hardly aware of its presence before it
has complete possession of him; and I have known instances of men who,
after having associated one evening with me, have awakened the
next
morning filled with the incurable enthusiasm of bibliomania.
.........How to get infected? Just buy a thrift store "BARTLETT'S
QUOTATIONS" a standard reference work, much esteemed for giving readers
the FULL DOSE OF CULTURE in one reading.
THAT EASY? Really? Yes. No longer do you need to wish your teens would read more, love books more, get Straight A's more. Fascination with books will hit any teen who has a Bartlett's. It will wind itself around his genetic material and he'll never be UN-CURIOUS again
My 4 children were always a little shocked at the sight of me lugging home books from garage sales, considered shelves of books unsightly, scary as they knew one day they'd inherit them. So they were problematic on many levels. They absolutely and resisted all efforts by me to gift them WITH these books --- if reading them were expected of 'em....and they truly make me wonder how many ways they can and will dump, destroy, burn, lose, trash my treasures the moment I am gone.
The trouble is, I didn't leave them alone at home enough long, boring DAYS IN A ROW to get them desperate enough to read. And it wasn't until they were grown that I found my first copy of Bartlett's for a buck at a garage sale, started reading it and got BACK into the book jag of my earlier days.
But now I know: HOW does one
get a kid addicted to reading? The greatest books will do the job. GOOGLE UP "BEST LISTS" pro bibliographies.
Get the great children's books at library, every 3 weeks you get a
stack. Get Bartlett's for teens. Ask me for a list for the young adults.
Back in the 1940's, I was always going through good children's books as my Mom, a triple Sagittarius, dragged me to the library every two weeks like clockwork. In the 1950's, I was often left at home with no parents to drive me places and all I had were my parent's bookshelves. Read everything in them.
Another way to
get kids to read is teach them to be BOOK DEALERS. Finders. You only
need show them where there is a USED BOOK SHOP that has rare books so
they can DEAL
Then weekends they will join you hitting the garage sales. Don't
let them overlook the geriatric resource,-- those elderly neighbors.
Most kids have nothing to say to a senior so teach your child to speak a
senior's language. To win them over with questions about the 'old days.' Every family had somebody in WWII. As a matter
of fact, my father worked at Lockheed in Burbank, building planes. My grandpa
left Berlin a few years before the war and, hid in Cassis in Provence with
his wife for the duration, then moved to Manhattan then finally Hollywood.
Have your children tell the oldsters, 'this was my family's story during
WWII. 'I don't know much about it myself, they don't teach this stuff in
school. I'm going to start buying books, used books that are from that
period." Leave it at that. If the senior says, 'what would you pay? I have
old books," then, you and the kids go see their shelves. Seniors live on
1940's prices. A book for 75c is a book well paid. I once knew an old book
buyer, in his twenties, rode a bike with a basket, answered ads at Craigs
list, came on his bike. As he knew rare books and the value of first editions, he did alright. But back then there were BOOK DEALERS. Brick and Mortar rare book stores that would shell out hundreds for his finds.
Investigate if there are where you live Or if NYC or some other big LUXE city is near, if sales
would be worth a car ride. Today on ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, a woman had THE
HOBBIT, first edition, signed by author, dustcover immaculate. It was
worth $150,000.
Anita Sands Hernandez can be reached at astrology at earthlink.net
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