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The BookThinker Newsletter
ISSN 1547-9501
#26, 6 September 2004
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Misnamed Books
An Interview with Allen and Pat Ahearn
Allen and Pat Ahearn's Collected Books: The Guide to
Values is one of the most useful first edition
identification guides available to booksellers and
collectors. The Ahearns are longtime booksellers
(and collectors) themselves and have devoted decades
to researching the information contained in the guide.
BookThink interviews the Ahearns in today's
newsletter.
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From the Editor
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A Study of Dorothy L. Sayers
Contributing Editor Pamela Palmer makes her second appearance today in
Collecting Mystery & Detective Fiction with a look at renowned mystery writer Dorothy Sayers.
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First Editions
A Primer
BookTopics makes a second appearance as well. This time it's first edition
identification, and we've gathered together the many BookThinker articles that
pertain to this topic and planted them in one place.
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Previous BookThinker Update -
BookThink 1st Anniversary Update
1 September 2004>>>
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30 August 2004>>>
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Collecting the Collector
The SF Short Story Anthologies
of Groff Conklin
It might not occur to us that "anthology" would be a BookThink flashpoint.
After all, anthologies are simply reprinted stories, articles or essays, and what's the
likelihood of a collector placing value on reprints? In today's BookThinker Update,
Tim Doyle shows how special circumstances surrounding the emergence of the Science Fiction genre
in the first half of the 20th century have conspired, oddly enough, to make some SF anthologies decidedly collectible. Groff Conklin, a particularly notable SF anthologist, is profiled in Collecting Science Fiction.
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A Bibliographer's Job Is Never Done
BookThink's Tim Doyle and SF author Bud Webster did some interesting sleuthing this week. Find out what the mystery was and how it was solved in today's BookThinker Update.
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