Friday, December 12, 2008

eBay Double Takes

I am sometimes taken aback by seller's comments in eBay listings. Here are two of which I made note.

NANCY DREW #70 The Broken Anchor by Carolyn Keene 1983 Item #370108868800

The only reason I clicked on this listing was because of the subtitle. The subtitle states, "Unique Paperback - take a look!" I thought I was going to see something special. This is the seller's picture:


It looks like any other Wanderer edition of The Broken Anchor. I thought maybe it was bound upside down or something, but no, the seller mentions nothing out of the ordinary.

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The Secret Of The Old Clock Item #220313733218

This auction is for a blank endpapers edition of Old Clock. What is remarkable is not the book but the seller's description, or rather, the last sentence of the seller's description.

"These early printings of first book are mostly dissappeared and getting rarer by the day you got nothing to lose and everything to win by bidding unless you are stupid and dumb!!!!!"

1 comment:

Robert said...

Ha! That "stupid and dumb" comment is funny. And that other seller must have only ever seen the yellow hardback covers.