The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 2, January 13, 2002, Article 12

NUMBER ONE RETURNS

  George Fuld writes: "As a matter of interest, my wife Doris
  and I have chaired the Brandeis used book sales in northwest
  Baltimore.  We had 40,000 to 50,000 for sale, all donated.
  It is interesting that coin books have always been donated.
  Over the years some twenty-five or more Redbooks were
  donated, the earliest being 1962!   Most books are the cheap
  investor-oriented ones, with only one exception.

  Perhaps you are familiar with the large format Civil War Store
  Card book published in  1972 in the red cloth binding.  We
  were given some 50 copies of the book as our "fee".  These
  were presented or sometimes sold with a rubber stamp inside
  reading "Limited Edition" and a number.  Copy 1 and 2 were
  for my father, Melvin, and myself.  Somehow copy number 1
  disappeared.  One fine morning I went to the depot where
  books were sorted and on the desk with no note or anything
  was copy number 1 of the Civil War book!!  To this day we
  have no idea who "borrowed" it or why it was donated to
  Brandeis as our names were not associated directly with the
  sale.

  This year nothing notable was donated, but two early city
  directories.  One was sold, but we put aside a copy of the
  1851 Worcester, Ma. Directory which is still available for
  benefit of the Brandeis Libraries.  If anyone is interested,
  contact me.

  We retired this year from running the sales, but one would
  be amazed at what has turned up.  We do put aside books
  valued at $50 or more and put them in the Baltimore Book
  Auction sales.  This year the special books realized over
  $3,400.  The sale itself at a suburban mall grossed of $35,000
  including the auction results.  We raised well over $100,000
  in the past few years for the benefit of the Brandeis University
  libraries."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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