The used/rare book market is a strange beast. It used to thrive on
lack of information. One would think that the current transparency
(check any title at bookfinder to see what I mean) would have
stabilized prices, but apparently not.
I just checked a few of my own titles and learned something
interesting. The same book would be available for anywhere from $5 to
$75, even at the different national incarnations of Amazon. When in
doubt check the Amazon of country of origin. Even with shipping you
can save a bundle.
Codeine is better than pain, but opium is better than either. The
only good thing about the Vietnam war is that there was lots of it
around. Sigh.
Best,
Mark
At 11:47 AM 3/30/2010, you wrote:
>Good news indeed, Chris, & I hope you are FEELING better...
>
>Doug
>On 29-Mar-10, at 7:15 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>>I got a script for 6 months supply of Codeine and pain management and
>>CFS under control. I feel almost healthy. (Codeine converts to
>>morphine
>>in liver and has the ability clear up infections quicker then
>>antibiotics and the version of cfs i have includes multiple infections
>>if untreated. Codeine is an opiate found in opium poppies along with
>>morphine.)
>>
>>And it is true: Times of Zenia Gold, used copies are selling between
>>75
>>& 100USD. I am on the collectors market! Not that I am 2 years outta
>>art
>>school but it does mean I may in the not to distant future actually
>>make
>>enough money to live on as an artist, a 40 year dream.... and I
>>thought
>>it would never happen.
>>
>>--
>>I have chronic fatigue syndrome so I may be delayed in my reply.
>>Just to
>>let you know, that's all. Chris Jones.
>>
>>Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>
>Douglas Barbour
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>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>Latest books:
>Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>Wednesdays'
>http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> The secret
>
>which got lost neither hides
>nor reveals itself, it shows forth
>
>tokens.
>
> Charles Olson
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in
English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The
Nation
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