abestreet
09-16-2004, 12:25 AM
I love Ebay. One of the things I like to collect are old hardback books. I love the Perry Mason mysteries and thanks to Ebay, as well as some other sites, I have obtained quite a few of the old hardback with dust jacket novels. I'm not collecting for money. I'm not as concerned about the edition or if the book is from a book club. I just want the spine and pages to be intact and the dust jacket to be untorn. I also collect many hardback books that I read as a kid. The old Beverly Cleary books, Walter Farley's The Black Stallion series, The Alfred Hitchcock & Three Investigator Series, Encyclopedia Brown series, Boxcar children series, the original ones by Gertrude Chandler, all books by Helen Fuller Orton, and any other book I enjoyed as a kid.
I get these books because the hardback editions are hard to find and many of these authors are not able to be obtained in todays bookstores. They are great stories and I enjoyed reading some to my kids. I look forward to reading them to my grand children some day. These editions have great artwork, some of which has been eliminated from some of the paperbook editions. Not only that, but many of these stories that are in print today have been modifed to make them appeal to today's young readers. Someone told me that the Hardy Boys series and Nancy Drew Series have been modied to include things like computers and modern day devices and themes. That's fine if it encourages young people to read. However, I want to also be able to enjoy the original stories. In the Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators series the publishers have removed Alfred Hitchcock from the stories all together. I know Alfred Hitchcock has been dead for two decades now but he had an interesting role in these mysteries. I don't know why publishers think that kids can't read a book that takes place in anothe time period? Kids can still watch shows like the original Scooby-Doo, with it's 60's slang speech, dated music and simple story lines and enjoy it for the show that it was and is. True they have modernized Scooby-Doo for some recent material but the originals are still available and enjoyed by kids. Why isn't this the case with books.
Anyway, My personal library continues to grow. It may not be worth much as far as money goes but I enjoy the collection and I hope later generations of my family will as well.
I get these books because the hardback editions are hard to find and many of these authors are not able to be obtained in todays bookstores. They are great stories and I enjoyed reading some to my kids. I look forward to reading them to my grand children some day. These editions have great artwork, some of which has been eliminated from some of the paperbook editions. Not only that, but many of these stories that are in print today have been modifed to make them appeal to today's young readers. Someone told me that the Hardy Boys series and Nancy Drew Series have been modied to include things like computers and modern day devices and themes. That's fine if it encourages young people to read. However, I want to also be able to enjoy the original stories. In the Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators series the publishers have removed Alfred Hitchcock from the stories all together. I know Alfred Hitchcock has been dead for two decades now but he had an interesting role in these mysteries. I don't know why publishers think that kids can't read a book that takes place in anothe time period? Kids can still watch shows like the original Scooby-Doo, with it's 60's slang speech, dated music and simple story lines and enjoy it for the show that it was and is. True they have modernized Scooby-Doo for some recent material but the originals are still available and enjoyed by kids. Why isn't this the case with books.
Anyway, My personal library continues to grow. It may not be worth much as far as money goes but I enjoy the collection and I hope later generations of my family will as well.