Book Board Chat

@madferu ~ Inspire With Nina If you really, really think it is real, you might want to go to the Bookseller Forum and ask there about it. Include that photo and everything you did here and tell them that World Cat was checked by you couldn't find your copy.

Tell them that you are not advertising, but thought what you had was real until a potential buyer questioned it. If they give you any grief about posting a running auction, tell them that I sent you after I had helped as much as I could ...of course that line about me sending you won't be worth a hill of beans to many of them! lol

Just a quick pop-in for now.

@10bbg10 ~ Helen Thanks for posting that article by your nephew. I found it very interesting.

@madferu ~ Inspire With Nina I didn't find you copy either; however, a signature under a photo usually screams fascimile to me. Is that photo the frontspiece - the page opposite the title page? That is usually where you will find photos or portraits of the author and their fascimile signature.

You can also look to see if there are any indentations made by a pen...or take a loupe at look very closely at it. I suspect that it is a fasimile also because that page would look 'odd' with just a blank margin and no 'caption' of some sort such as name.

One time we sold a signed by the artist Heritage Press book because we 'assumed' that the frontispiece art work with signature was a fasimile since it was a Heritage Press and not a Limited Edition Club. Turns out that our lucky buyer informs us that Heritage Press published several books that are signed. It was to get people interested in them, but I digress . . .

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