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(06-21-2017 12:48 PM)Lush Wrote:  i've only just begun to get into science fiction. i mean, i've only heard of dune. i've got this lord book jotted down and soon i will spring it upon some unsuspecting book monger

I have a battered 1969 first printing from Avon Press. Which I purchased at a used book store called "Book Corner" located in Ravenna OH in or around 1997. For .50 - I know it was fifty cents because there is still a little sticker on the cover.

Book Corner, sadly, went out of business a year or two after said purchase. I suspect central to their demise is that they were in the practice of selling Hugo Award winning sci-fi novels for fifty cents. I would gladly have paid a few bucks for it.

I remember cashing out at the desk at the book shop and handing the owner 3.00 for 6 classic, amazing books. The owner was elated and I felt like I was robbing the guy.

Lush - PM me your address and I will send you this 48 year old treasure of a printing. My wife keeps telling me we am overrun with my books. It is just the right amount of yellowed and has soft "feel" of old quality paper. Love that sh*t.

I will pour a measure off my 40oz into the ground to celebrate the passing and new life of this old copy as well as the Book Corner R.I.P.