Thanks, Andy. I hope the Spenser scholar gets it and tells the rest of
us. It's a beyond my reach now, but if s/he gets it then it won't just
disappear. Anne.
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:17 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I wanted to forward this message on behalf of the person selling
> that 1590
> FQ. After re-examining his copy, he finds
> some additional pages to be missing, but he can't use the various
> tools on
> eBay to contact the bidder with this new
> information. He recalls that the high bidder was a Spenser scholar,
> though,
> and hoped I could pass this message on
> to the list, in hopes that bidder will see the information. I'm
> pasting his
> message below.
>
> Andy
>
>
> May I impose on you to make another post to your Spenser list
> about my
> book on e-Bay? I decided to go through
> it once again very carefully, with Francis Johnson's Critical
> Bibliography
> of the Works of Edmund Spenser in hand, to
> check "points," especially the errors in pagination unique to this
> 1590
> first edition.
> All the mispaginations are correct, according to Johnson, but to my
> everlasting shame in my long list of missing
> leaves in the e-Bay description I left out two missing bifolia: sig
> F4-5
> (pp. 85-88) and sig. G4-5 (pp. 101-104). The
> e-Bay system will not let me send another note to the high bidder,
> who did
> not reveal his e-mail address. I'd like
> him to know, if he reads your list-serv, that I will of course
> cancel the
> sale if these additional missing leaves spoil
> the prospective purchase for him.
>
>
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:05 AM, anne prescott wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, John. I imagine the people wanting to know would be the
>>> editors of the Oxford Spenser. I know David Miller is on the list.
>>> I'll copy this to Joe Lowenstein (who just gave a terrific and
>>> moving plenary talk at the SCSC conference on Saturday) in case he
>>> isn't in the list--I know he has had Spenser stuff digitized. The
>>> seller is, if I have this right, mallardbooks--anyway, I know
>>> mallard is in the name. I have a query in about possible marginalia.
>>> So far the bidding is about $1100 but there is no way it's going to
>>> sell for that, although it's damaged, and there's a week to go. Once
>>> when I did bid $500 on a 16th century Ariosto, knowing it was a
>>> futile gesture, the bookseller simply withdrew the book after no bid
>>> came anywhere near the book's worth. Oh to be rich. Yes, you can see
>>> the 1590 edition on EEBO, but still . . . . Anyway, David and the
>>> others can add it to the list and maybe track down the seller. Anne
>>> Prescott.
>>> On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:53 PM, John Geraghty wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed a 1590 copy of the FQ on ebay. The link is:
>>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/EDMUND-SPENSER-FAERIE-QUEENE-1590-1ST-ED-NR-
>> COMPLETE_W0QQitemZ300268432721QQcmdZViewItem?
>> hash
>> =
>> item300268432721
>> &_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1420%7C66%3A2%7C65
>> %3A12%7C39%3A1%7
>> C240%3A1318
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I remember someone on the list wanting to track all existing
>>>> copies. I just can't remember who it was.
>>>> This might be another one to add to that list.
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC.
>>>> See how
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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