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A Fortune for a Book
Philadelphia Times
"FIVE hundred dollars for eight pages of dingy reading! That's a good deal of money you will acknowledge, to invest in four small leaves of print paper," observed a Walnut Street dealer in rare books the other day. "However, that is the price I offered a man a few days ago. The eight pages wanted were of old Pennsylvania laws. My offer was declined with thanks, the owner being something of a bibliophile himself, and knowing that the scarcity of these pages would permit him to fix his own figure for his set. The pages would be passed over or destroyed by the ordinary reader, yet there is not another known copy in existence. You will readily understand that they are valuable when you consider the size of my offer.
"I bought a pamphlet for fifty cents from another bookseller several weeks ago, and sold it within a few days for forty dollars. That was merely a stroke of luck in business. The pamphlet was on this bookseller's shelves for sale at a stipulated price fixed by himself.
"Dealers in rare books seldom make purchases from strangers unless the latter can give satisfactory information of how the books came into their possession. This is done partly from a selfish motive, and partly from a desire to protect their customers.
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September 12, 1901 issue
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Relic of Revolutionary Days
W. Heath with contributions from Seth Loring
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Dare to Try
S. E. Kiser
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In Answer to a Correspondent
W. D. McCrackan
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Eclipses
A. J. M.
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President McKinley
with contributions from W. G. Ewing
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Not Authorized
Editor
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"Some Heretical Nobles."
Editor
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What's the use of blaming others,...
Wm. Brunton with contributions from John Bunyan
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A False Claim
BY JAMES J. ROME.
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For Favors Received
BY MARY ALICE DAYTON.
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How Christian Science Illumines all Truth
BY ADDA HINCHMAN MENTZER.
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Physical and Moral Benefits Received
E. M. H.
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Christian Science brought Peace
E. M. Herbst
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Happiness found at Last
F. L. S.
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Thankful for the Opportunity to Learn the Truth
Winfield E. McBride
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Religious Items
with contributions from James Freeman Clarke, George Brown