Hi, Justin -- Alas for fond hopes; your msword attachment was too much for my sorry webtv service to handle. (Your listed dups, however, would make up a great...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:57 pm
Hi, Michael -- Your storypaper list downloaded here very oddly, thanks to my miserable webtv service. Much of your list was made up of battalions of "y's"...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:33 pm
THE MANIAC FATHER or The Victim of Seduction by Thomas Prest, E lloyd, nd, 604 pp., rag, well-read copy but sound; one page damaged not affecting text. THE...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 3, 2001 12:53 am
NOTE: Most of the following titles are parts-issue fiction, but some are one volume reprints of serials from boy's papers and US story papers. And a few are...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:02 am
Hello Bill, I just did a quick check for Raby Rattler on ABE and I found 5 copies (with Jarndyce being the most expensive). What I found interesting is that...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 3, 2001 12:26 pm
Hello all I'm agog at the unfolding Blackbeard collection. Some wonderful titles here and like Justin I am boggled to see there was a Maniac Mother. If I had...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:00 pm
As before, most of the following titles are part-issue fiction, but there are some early shilling shockers and other cheap fiction oddities as well. Although...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jul 3, 2001 11:42 pm
Great stuff! I am tempted to break into your house and rob you! I wonder if Secrets of the Old Smithy is from Ada the Betrayed. The 3rd and 4th Series of The...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 4, 2001 1:16 am
Easily the most wretched volume on my shelves is a titleless, home-bound collection of US De Witt parts novels, with kid scrawls throughout, missing pages...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
Jul 4, 2001 2:11 am
... This one intrigues me, actually. Is it a Nelson Lee story, or is someone else the hero? jess...
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Alex Maisey
a.maisey@...
Jul 4, 2001 5:48 pm
Dear All! I am astonished at the lists of these amazing private collections. You've all evidently put huge amounts of time and money in putting these...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 4, 2001 7:32 pm
Hi, Jess -- Yep, Nelson Lee is very much involved in this story and is central to the denoument. Can make you a copier copy if you want. Bill B....
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justingilb@...
Jul 5, 2001 6:35 pm
Hello Kiera, First of all, I never got this message in my e-mail and just happened to see it in the archives? Has anyone else had this problems, or am I the...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 5, 2001 7:49 pm
Hi, Justin --Kiera's email sailed into port here with no trouble yesterday. Hope my last two B'sB installments reached you (#4 & #5)in the holiday mail. Hope...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 7, 2001 9:58 pm
In Part 5, I listed the contents of my tattrerdemalion volume of De Witt bloods, citing the missing pages and so on, but failed to set down the De Witt titles...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 8, 2001 9:56 pm
Hi, all. The bloods (and boys paper) available for trade from my collection (all as described in my foregoing list) are: Boys of the Empire, first two volumes;...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 9, 2001 1:19 pm
Hello to all Inspired by Bill's postings ( not to mention his method of issuing the list in instalments ) I give the opening section of my own collection....
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 10, 2001 6:22 pm
Here's the next section: WILLIAM CAFFYN 10 DE LISLE; OR, THE SHIPWRECKED STRANGER. A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE. by Hannah Maria Jones 49 parts each with a woodcut,...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 11, 2001 7:07 pm
A. RITCHIE SERIALS 23. CAPTAIN TOM DRAKE; OR, ENGLAND’S HEARTS OF OAK by W.L. Emmett. 74 parts, no date, 900 pages, illustrated. c. 1870. Published by A....
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 13, 2001 3:32 pm
HOGARTH HOUSE SERIALS IN BOUND VOLUMES 49. ROBIN HOOD AND THE ARCHERS OF MERRIE SHERWOOD by George Emmett. 38 parts, nd but Ono catalogue suggest c.1890. This...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 14, 2001 12:30 am
Surfing the QUESTIONS, COLLECTION LISTS, TRADE POSSIBILITIES, etc., from Justin, Michael, Kiera, Alex. Peter, and Jess, I'll try to reply to as many of these...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
Jul 14, 2001 12:44 am
... Most dimes don't interest me, but those involving some series characters (Electric Bob and Nick Carter in particular) do interest me. I like the fictional...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 15, 2001 6:57 pm
EDWIN J. BRETT SERIALS IN BOUND VOLUMES 74. THE SWORD OF FATE; OR, THE HEADSMAN’S DOOM 14 parts, nd, no wrappers. Advertisements for coloured model of...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jul 16, 2001 12:03 am
Hello, Since ALex and Kiera are trying to get more titles added to their awesome site, and since I am hoping to help them, I thought I'd ask what success...
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Mr Alex MAISEY
a.maisey@...
Jul 16, 2001 8:50 am
Justin, and everybody else! Regarding your query about scanning etc... I must confess that I have had no success in the scanning department whatsoever )I have...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jul 16, 2001 7:07 pm
JOHN DICKS 116. NIGHTSHADE; OR, CLAUDE DUVAL THE DASHING HIGHWAYMAN Ono catalogue attribute the story to James Rymer ( J. Errym is given on spine title to part...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 16, 2001 8:48 pm
Hi, Justin, Alex, Kiera -- I have no scanning facility at present, since my webtv setup doesn't provide for scan transmission, only receipt. What I can and...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 17, 2001 10:41 pm
When the old London Journal expired, its title was purchased by the publisher of Spare Moments, F. A, Wickhart, in June of 1918. A long devotee of sensational...
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justingilb@...
Jul 18, 2001 12:01 am
Any chance you could photocopy some of these? These would be great to scan in and post on the list. Justin ... the publisher of Spare Moments, F. A, Wickhart,...
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dgreene@...
Jul 18, 2001 11:09 am
Michael Wow! Doug G Douglas G. Greene Professor of History Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529-0091 Phone 757 683-3949...
