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<div>Just got my first three replacement copies of my missing Wolfe's: Innocents Abroad, Starwater Strains, and Strange Travellers--all short story collections in case any of the titles in these are on the May Is Gene Wolfe Shorts Month project.</div>
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<div>Annoyed as they are all ex-library books: which the Amazon "partner" did not mention in his/her description. I did not pay a lot, and these are all fine "reading copies", but given a choice between a ex-library book with stickers, mylar wrap and stamps and things inside...and a actual "new" copy without any of that, I'll choose the new one.</div>
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<div>Am I a cranky book collector or what?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children (<a href="http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/">http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/</a>).<br>
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