Re: salinger values
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 19:35:12 +1000
I figure you've probably got much more happiness out of this book than
anyone else was ever likely to, and if someone cared so little about it to
store it in their beach house I don't think they would have cared
particularly that you had stolen it. Life's too short for such trifling
regrets. I can't believe anyone would be too worried 20 years on. I can
sympathise with Will's library copy of Catcher being his `lucky charm' -
for some reason the copy in my school library was far more sacred than my
own ordinary copy, because it was where I had first read it. Boy I had a
hard time parting with it. But I didn't want to deprive anyone else of it!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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> From: PODESTA,Lesley <Lesley.PODESTA@deetya.gov.au>
> To: 'bananafish@lists.nyu.edu'
> Subject: RE: salinger values
> Date: Friday, 29 May 1998 9:33
>
> Will asked:
> > Don't know what an Oz edition is--is it all green?
> The Australian first edition is orange with black type.The famous
> photograph is on the back cover.
> Lesley
> ps After confessing my beach house book pilfering I rang my mum to ask
> her who owned the house. She said that she wouldn't have a clue and the
> house had been demolished ten years ago - everything had gone to the
> rubbish tip. So, maybe I actually saved the book from becoming landfill?
>