Malia wrote:I think only museums and Universities (and very rich private collectors) have any first editions of Keats. I read once that, before he became popular, his books sold in the 1p bin at booksellers' shops. Oh, how I wish I could go back in time and steal a few of those bargains!
Saturn wrote:Meh too gaudy and excessive for my tastes.
Even if I had that amount of money I certainly wouldn't be able to justify to myself or anyone else spending such an obscene amount of money on a book, any book, even if it was signed by Shakespeare, or Milton spilt a cup of coffee on it, or Keats scribbled in the margin, no matter what I would be ashamed to have spent that amount of money on something like that when so much good could be done with the money for others.
But maybe I'm being too serious, I don't know, but that's how I feel.
Genius, is priceless, be it one pence or seven thousand dollars.
BrokenLyre wrote:That is a great deal Raphael! I have not seen that one around. But I managed to get the following (which are in my library now). Thanks to eBay.
The Poetical Works of John Keats (in Two Parts)
- Wiley & Putnam, NY, 1846.
Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats
- Richard Monckton Milnes ed., George Putnam, NY, 1848.
The Eve of St. Agnes
- Copyright by Charles E. Wentworth, Cambridge University Press, 1885.
The condition is not too bad for the 1846 & 1848 books. They were a bit more than 3 1/2 pounds however.
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