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...stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones average will go through the top of the World Trade Center, and the Kingdom will be an overnight hero to the hard-pressed West. The scheme works on paper -at least the clothbound kind...
...which everything that occurred in the world could be seen simultaneously. In the new book, there is "undr, " a single word meaning wonder, which is an ancient tribe's entire body of literature. The Book of Sand is an other expression of this hyperidealism. A collector acquires a clothbound octavo volume bearing the title "Holy Writ." But he can never find the same place twice...
Lewis Carroll Society. Clothbound, $10. Paperback, with $10 membership in the society...
Bidding for this rare item-owned and hoarded anonymously-was astonishingly low: a dealer purchased the pages for ? 1,700, then about $4,000, for Manhattan Collector Norman Armour Jr., who has just allowed the Lewis Carroll Society to print a clothbound edition of 750 copies plus a paperback version. The little volume is introduced and amplified by Martin Gardner, author of the classic Annotated Alice...
...visitor to the hide-and clothbound world of rare-book dealers can fail to sense the excitement of the current paper chase. Behind the talk of versos and rectos is the awareness that big money is moving into the market. Disenchanted with stocks, wealthy investors have sought to beat inflation with old books. Connecticut Businessman Jonathan Goodwin, whose books were sold at the record-breaking auction, at least tripled his investment...