Book Board Chat

@lookwhatbobfound Bob, The best haul of books I ever got was when one of my friends saw the employees of a storage rental facility dump a big lot of books into a dumpster. He got as many as he could load into his already loaded vehicle that day. Then he went back the next morning and got the rest of the books.
He called me to come look at them. He knew they came from the estate of some important Indiana person. Turned out it was a former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice, Curtis G. Shake, who was a book collector himself. My friend and I agreed that I should pay him $3 a book and a certain percentage of any book that sold for over $20. At one time I took him a check for $1000.
I put the name of the Chief Justice in keywords on my database of all of those book .
Later I became acquainted with a relative of the judge. I gave him some of the more personal papers that came with the books. One item which I have him was a photograph scrap book that had been presented to the judge when he and his wife did an official good will tour of Japan. I thought about trying to sell that but just never could bring myself to do that.
One of the best pieces was the judges hand written first day book. That went to the University of Vincennes where the library is named for for the judge.
The just retired Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice called one day to ask if he could come look at the books. He came, he spent--- over $500. .