Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:49:17 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Another prediction falls flat...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

from the latest Ansible:

"Speculative Finance Dept, 1978: `... now is a bad, bad time to start
collecting some modern SF authors, at least if you have any
consideration for your wallet. And who knows when the crest of the wave
will curl over, the whole field of SF be "whited out"? In ten years'
time the Walker first hardcover edition of LeGuin's Left Hand of
Darkness which I saw recently catalogued at $50.00 may fetch only half
that ...' (George Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, 1978) "

The cheapest 1st editon listed on www.abebooks.com is an ex-library for
$300.00.  Highest price is a mere $2158.00

mjw