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Apparently the dinner rolls are to die for…

I was pretty darn happy to find this first edition copy of The Silent Bullet thrifting. But was even more happy when I opened it up to the bookplate of Percival Lowell.

Does prior ownership add anything substantial to the value? Thanks.

German>English handwritten inscription in book about Rainer Wilke

Someone must have given a civil war aficionados’ entire collection to the thrift store. Lots of Bruce Catton some were BCE. But these I thought were nice (well the Clansman is not nice per se).

$300

First is an untitled original by Kenneth Victor Young. He was on the fringes of the Washington Color School movement of the 50’s - 70’s. This acrylic on paper is dated 1979.

Second is a framed poster (sorry about the glare) of a Harry Callahan exhibition poster from 1981.

At the time I bought this at a thrift store I didn’t know if I could safely call it rare. In fact I was done shopping and walking out if the books section when this caught my eye. It was a different shape than all the other books. There was only one other copy for sale online and that was for $1500. I thought about posting it here at the time and asking if it was rare and could it sell for that amount but assumed I’d get shot down.

So I priced at $1000 on a lark and filed it away in my bookcase. It sat there quietly biding away its time til yesterday when it sold for $750.

Thought this would interest some folks on here. Dr. Pail Wolfe was an early proponent of Leica.

Dr. Paul Wolff (1887-1951) was a prominent German self-taught photographer and one of the first to adopt the Leica. Whilst many of his photographs are published, a great deal of his archive burned in 1944 during World War II. He published 25-30 books with his photos from 1914 to 1950, amongst them the book "Meine Erfahrungen mit der Leica" ("My experience with the Leica") 1934; there was an exhibiton of the same name the year before) and the "Meine Erfahrungen mit der Leica farbig" (1944, "My experience with Leica Color Photography").

Photo by: Willi Klar, 1940.

More info here

https://ebay.us/m/yzF2md

I was visiting Boston and did a thrift store crawl hunting for books. I’m going to share photos any comments or insights on any of these would be helpful for my own knowledge. I think the cream of the crop is the “Katrina and Jan signed first edition from 1923 - I can’t find another one like it in this first edition and signed.

6 books in total - two pictures each