Rare books: far more than paper and ink
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By Stephen Crafti
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When rockstar and poet Patti Smith first moved to New York in the late 1960s she worked as a waitress. She also boosted her income by discovering rare books, many of which were on-sold to help establish her artistic career.
At about the same time, Kay Craddock, owner of Kay Craddock-Antiquarian Bookseller, established a family bookstore in Melbourne’s suburban Essendon (now at 156 Collins Street).
The Schoeffer bible, circa 1472, was sold to the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne for $200,000.
Synopsis:
In 1980s England, a woman who said she was fleeing from witches left her infant daughter, Earwig, at an orphanage with only a cassette tape to remember her by. Ten years later, the girl – renamed Erica Wig by the matron of the orphanage – feels she pretty much has the run of the orphanage and doesn t want to live anywhere else. That decision gets taken out of her hands when a strange couple chooses her despite her efforts to dissuade them. Erica finds herself as the “extra pair of hands” for a witch and an irritable demon-controlling fellow named Mandrake, but she quickly decides that she will learn to do magic and will eventually have the run of this house, too.
“How far are they going back? Will they try to rescind his birth certificate,” Jim asked rhetorically about the groups that will no longer do business with his companies.
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