Collectors, what one thing would "make" your collection?

What have you been searching for far and wide to complete or add to your collection?

They are easy to find just terribly expensive.

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I figure with $6.7 billion I can fulfill all my collections.

Such as these that I already have:



These are actually two sets: the rocking chair and the person are each a shaker





and many more that there aren't picc to find of them as they are pretty much one of a kind

Being able to get this one would be a great addition:

What would make my collection would be a signed first edition copy of BLOOD MERIDIAN.

They do exist, but they are at least $4,000. Just to get a good first edition of the novel used to cost around two or three grand, and that was three years ago when I was collecting--luckily, that was before he won a Pulitzer.

Then, a silly second would be a signed sealed copy of Madonna's SEX book from way back in the early 90s. Sealed copies of SEX used to be very sought-after items; I'm not sure if they still are or not. There are so many phony signed Madonna items out there that I decided to just concentrate on literary authors.

I bet you've got a copy.

I've heard it's an amazing illumination of McCarthy's masterpiece. Certainly an incredible amount of research went into it.

Damn that it went out of print.

Amazon has a few paperback copies at $445 a pop.

I just can't justify it unless I win the lottery.

I collect movies. I recently found a copy online. I was happy to have it after years of fruitless hunting but I found the quality objectionable. I have retained the copy but I'm still keeping my eyes peeled for a properly encoded copy.

Actually, even though I collect business cards from bookstores, any sort of ephemera from there would be great!

Tim

:hi:

RL

It's amazing...I was pondering a favorite Emerson quote, "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards," when I stumbled across your post.

This has been a year filled with cowards. People who lie, people who are afraid, people who will tell you what they want and will do absolutely nothing to get it. So I ground myself in Ralph Waldo Emerson and keep putting one foot in front of the other. I'm not a coward and I feel sad about people who take that path, but that's their decision, not mine.

My preferred volume is the Signet Classics book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451529073

But I'd love an "ultimate" edition. This is a small paperback. I'd love a hardcover or leather bound edition.

The Signet book is significant because it includes the major essays AND selected letters / journal entries. If you haven;t read the latter, you don;t know Emerson.

EXCELLENT thread, and I recommended it.

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:-)

Now that Nascar is no longer going to race the regular cars and seeing as how they're obsolete the teams are selling them. This neighbor of a friend bought both cars for 20 cents on the dollar. The various Nascar teams have about 700 cars that they can't race. The Gordon car ran at Watkin's Glen.

Queens Of The Stone Age - s/t
Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III

There's also a few OOP Porcupine Tree releases that I've been searching for as well.

Over in personal interests.

There's a dish set that I have the table runner to match,but I missed out on the last set of dishes I saw on ebay. I hope someday someone else puts them up again...

I feel foolish now. Ah, well.