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To: Rambi who wrote (36878)	5/7/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Amazingly enough, a number of those old books are now worth a king's ransom. Not things like The Hardy Boys' While the Clock Ticked, of which there are probably a nearly infinite number of copies moldering unwept in attic cardboard boxes, pages so fragile that you can't possibly fold over the corner to save your place (and yes, I admit to this unpardonable sacrilege, with cheap books anyway, although I had the quirk of never putting a mark on a textbook in college, no highlighting, underlining etc). But I have found that some of the lesser known hardcover series that I read are now between a hundred and five hundred dollars for a copy in good condition. The most expensive ones I think are some of the series that were published during the Second World War -- the reason being that during the war, paper quality in these books was very poor due to rationing of various commodities used to make paper. And most of them self destructed over time unless kept in the most pristine of environments. And yes, I read those little orange biographies too. They were ubiquitous.

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