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silverwolfer
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 05:35:31
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So I got lucky. Found for 1.25 a signed soft back. The crystal shard. R.a.Salvatore was a great find.
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6666 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 06:20:37
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Win!
-- George Krashos |
"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 06:41:02
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| I still need to get him to sign my 1st edition paperback. I had planned on it at a convention he attended in Houston a few years ago, but his mother's health took a turn for the worse and he had to leave early. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31772 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 11:34:45
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| This does remind me of when I found [but failed to purchase] a rare Ed Greenwood-signed copy of Elminster: The Making of a Mage in a second-hand bookshop. With deep regret, I realised that I'd forgotten my money purse, so I raced home to retrieve it, only to return to the store an hour later and discover that the book had disappeared. Likely purchased by some other lucky Realms fan. |
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Arcanus
Senior Scribe
485 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 13:55:10
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Originally posted by The Sage
This does remind me of when I found [but failed to purchase] a rare Ed Greenwood-signed copy of Elminster: The Making of a Mage in a second-hand bookshop. With deep regret, I realised that I'd forgotten my money purse, so I raced home to retrieve it, only to return to the store an hour later and discover that the book had disappeared. Likely purchased by some other lucky Realms fan.
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
1847 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 14:00:46
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| Or call a dear friend to come to the store, spot you the cash and then follow you home for his/her money. Such a book would be worth it! |
I have a dream that one day, all game worlds will exist as one. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 14:12:39
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I used to have a copy of Dragonlance Adventures, signed by Tracy Hickman, that I picked up at this sorta-but-not-really flea market in Sanford.
And I have a signed copy of Evermeet. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 15:38:44
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Originally posted by The Arcanamach
Or call a dear friend to come to the store, spot you the cash and then follow you home for his/her money. Such a book would be worth it!
Embarrassingly, it was only after the book disappeared that I remembered a fellow bibliophile who lives only three streets away from the book shop. She could have easily made the purchase for me had I remembered and then called her to come to the store.  |
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Xnella Moonblade-Thann
Learned Scribe
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jan 2015 : 18:21:11
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| About a decade ago, I had found all 16 books of the Harpers series in a thrift store in the big city near me...I only purchased Elfshadow and Elfsong (as they had the same author and characters), but didn't think to look for the other two by Elaine Cunningham (Silver Shadows and Thornhold) as I had no idea they were also there (I had *just* discovered the Realms and didn't know about those ones). I have Silver Shadows now, plus The Dream Spheres, from the Song & Swords series printing and all 5 books as ebooks...but I'd like to get all 5 as a matched set (that would never get touched, lest they be ruined!), and maybe someday get them all signed...a scribe can dream, can't she? |
"Sweet water and light laughter until next we meet." - traditional elven farewell
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I got lucky found a signed book
