Is there such thing as a married sentence? You know, like a single sentence...

That's only allowed in the more progressive genres. Usually they're only allowed civil partnerships.

So more like New Age sentences then?

I think they have to include at least two crystals and a dolphin.

And how many crooks can you fit into a prison sentence?

Well, if you have cons in a prison sentence, where would the pros be?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

hanging around street corners, late at night.

having pregnant pauses

In the past I was into Family History and got interested in London churches and the environment. I have a large number of book published around 1900.
1879 - Canterbury Tales and The Fairie Queene
1877 - Mackesosn's Guide to the Churches of London
1877 - Astronomical Myths
1876 - Handbook of the Envions of London - amazing how many parts of London are only villages and hamlets
1840 - Two volume New Testament in English and Greek with annotation

Slight change of topic, but it's about due, and this has nothing to do with food!


What is the rarest book you've got, in your opinion.

Last night my wife gave me to read a book printed in 1916 that is/was written by soldiers at Gallipoli. It belonged to someone in her father's family I believe. I've never seen it before and it leaves books such as 'Khaki and Green' for dead in terms of emotions.



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An autographed copy of FAS, minus footnotes!

I don't know what my rarest book is, but am trying to find a copy of a self-published work from 1916 which my husband's great-great-grandfather wrote to commemorate his only son, who died at the Battle of the Somme. Amazon has it listed, but without any copies available.

Not much of my stuff is rare. Too many paperbacks. I do have a signed copy of The Last Unicorn though.

HITW,

What is the name of the book?

Perhaps other fforumites around the world may have a little luck if it is their lists of 'things I want to acquire'.

A cookbook of my great-grandmother's favourite recipes I guess.

Otherwise, one of those books for boys from the early 30s.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

bunyip Wrote:
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> HITW,
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> What is the name of the book?

It's called "George Andrew Herdman", written by his father, William Abbott Herdman. I can't imagine that it's easily available as I understand that it was self-published for friends and family in 1917, and that later generations of the family regarded it as rather an embarrassment for its pro-war dulce et decorum est-ness...which is, naturally, what piqued my interest.

Now that I've seen Martin B's response, I remember that I do have a reprint of my great-great-grandmother's recipe book, full of healthy goodies all starting with, "Take a pound of butter..." and her personal approach to measurements, as everything is a handful of this, a palm of that, a pinch of something else.

HITW- I'm not sure how successful it'd be, but I'd recommend looking in second-hand bookshops in the area where it was published/where your great-great-grandfather lived. One of our lecturers has managed to locate one or two self-published books this way. Do you know if enough were printed so that a copy was sent to the British Library? Otherwise W H Smiths used to do a rare books search service, although I don't think it was ever very helpful. Otherwise this is a database of hundreds of different independent and second hand bookshops which has sometimes helped me: *clicky*

Excellent idea -- it's at the British Library! Thank you!

Fantastic news! Let us know what it's like...

We have quite a few Joe Lansdale and Charles de Lindt books from print runs of only 26 copies, which must make them rare editions, if not exactly rare books.

We also have an original version hardback "Carpet People" by young TP, signed by old TP.

Nice....

What is it actually like?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland