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Golf's never made me feel good -- "klutzy" is more the word --but that isn't true for everyone. One of our friends from the St. Francis apartments for the A Bookseller's Diary, forgetting bad habits
I got a call Monday that has bothered me since. A woman I'd bought some books from called and angrily said, "I sold you some first editions. You gave me $3 apiece, and I want to know what you sold them for." I told her if I paid her $3, I would price the book at $9 or $10.
There is a certain macabre joy that comes from discovering a hidden treasure among a dead person’s items. For whatever reason there is also some romanticism associated with those that do so in a “respectful” way. Archaeologists are viewed with both the swagger of Indiana Jones and the childhood wonder of discovering unknown cities, palaces and riches. Booksellers too hold a unique and attractive role to those of us who often get lost in a good story.
We feel Denver's population boom at Printed Page. Today, we had customers from Massachusetts, Alabama, New York, California and Kansas, all new to the city.
A daughter asked me to come look at the books from her mother's estate. When I got there, the family was busy cleaning up the house to get it ready for sale.