Mark, I have an excellent condition original copy that came to me (via Lorne Sheilds) years ago without the dustcover and signature....$175 seemed like a good deal then...and now too. Ted Ernst gave me an original dustcover to complete it. It's very interesting reading. Over the last 9 years or so I have easily purchased dozens X dozens of olde and new books related to cycling...in English, French, Dutch, Italian, German and on. I also have somewhere around 1200 cycling magazines nearly all from the 1930's-1980's....700 or so are 'Cycling' and it's various iterations from the teens through the 1970's......First Editions of Frank Patterson, epic volumes by Chany, hard and soft covers of the 50th, 75th & 100th Anniversary Editions of American Bicyclist, most every cycling related coffee table book, shopworn Brown Bros. catalogs, cartons and boxes of brochures, handbooks, manuals, reprints and on and even a couple hundred or more (actually way more) sportscaster cycling cards from 1976-77 and Panni cards from 1970-71. Where does it stop? Oh, and I own a few bicycles too! We're all a little crazy, some just a bit more than others.
Once this Vintage Bicycle passion is set there is no going back...why fight it?? I own a more than fully equipped/stocked Bike Shop but I'm the only customer. My garage(s) are a diorama of Cycling. Compared to collecting cars, ski-boats or x-wives this is a very reasonable hobby/passion/obsession. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Matt "still has my first Colnago and first wife" Gorski Bikenut Shore, CA
toast!
> Ok, if I were a real man I would take all that was coming to me as well as
the blame, but that aside I am going to blame each and everyone of you list
members. At the Cirque I balked at $35 for a first edition of Hearts of
Lions and now I just dropped $760 on a book and that doesn't include
shipping. I was a rational thinking person just three years ago. What
happened say ye? I got involved with Dale Brown and all his cronies. There
was a time when I would have to think long and hard about a second bike
purchase, now with 10 or more in the basement and more on the way I don't
think about costs, no I sure don't, don't even think about where the money
will come from. Banks have lots of money and there are banks on every
corner I tell you. I have seen them.
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many days 'til the next Cirque?
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