Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 22:45:30 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: How I Spent my Summer Vaca^W^W Weekend
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Various comments, massive snippage occurs . . .

>
>How I Spent my Summer Vaca^W^W Weekend, by Keith Lynch
>
Er . . . GroupWise is showing me a tilda W tilda W between Vaca and =
Weekend.  I suspect there are suppose to be two slashes ?

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>But the highlight of the meeting was Elspeth's announcement about the
>Disclave^W Capclave hotel situation.  Her announcement completely
>ruined my plans for an April Fool's WSFA Journal article in which
>Lance signs a ten year contract with a hotel in Gdansk, in which a
>screwup in exchange rate results in our being obligated to pay, not
>600,000 Zlotys per room night (about $30) but 600,000 Euros (about
>half a million dollars).

there's always Turkish Lira . . .

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>
>The oldest thing I saw for sale was a Bible from the 1500s.  The
>newest (other than books and magazines about collecting old books)
>was from 2000.  Yes, 2000 is apparently already antiquarian by some
>people's standards.  Feeling old yet?

Hyper modern firsts.  Especially in the UK mystery book genre.
Also, it is rumored that the first Harry Potter book had a print run of =
about 1000 copies, some say 500 copies.

A set of UK 1st editions:  =A3 30000.00 (approx. US$ 42558.60)
The  first one, UK 1st:  =A3 12500.00 (approx. US$ 17732.75)

>
>I noticed two people were selling old SF books and magazines.  And
>doing so for wildly inflated prices.

"Sure the beer is $25.00 apint, but I only need to sell one . . ."

I told them I knew where they
>could buy such books and magazines for much less.  I got their
>business cards, and I will be sending them information on a certain
>local convention.

Balticon?

And everything else snipped.

Fanac is what fans do.

mjw

Who publishes hardcover fanzines called books for his fanac

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