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[D.]

My collection is fairly modest.  My highlights include
all of Salinger's works in first editions (with
original, complete dust jackets), including the the
Raise first without the dedication page.  My Salinger
collection extends into other items that I also have
all of Pynchon's and a few Steinbeck firsts, notably
Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. An in person
signature of Don DeLillo's Underworld and nearly all
of Hermann Hesse's books in their First
American/English versions. There are numerous others
that I'm sure to forget and some I'd rather not
publicly mention, but I could be contacted offlist to
discuss.

Franzen was, specifically, a writer whose potential,
assuming he delivers another novel or two as good or
better than The Corrections, I think could merit
potential value in 15-20 years.  He could fade well
into oblivion, too.  Infinite Jest, I believe, had a
modest first print run, but did have a known error on
its dust jacket that was corrected in later printings.
 Infinite Jest was a good, if ambitious, novel that
I've only read once and that was quite a few years
back.  Sort of Pynchon-lite for the X-gen to me is how
it came off. Vollmann seems to be writer gaining a bit
of rep, but I know so little about him to this point,
I have no opinion.  So hard with the younger crew of
writers these days....

D.

--- Christopher Kubica <info at applicationarch.com>
wrote:

> You're a book collector, eh? What are the favorite
> parts of your collection?
> I'm not a collector per se, but I've got a few gems
> that I love, worth money
> or no...
> 
> ---a signed Donald Barthelme book that I found in a
> used bookstore for $4
> (the owner seemed shocked with his underpricing as
> he sold it to me)
> ---a bible sized gold leaf complete Shakespeare from
> 1920-something. I don't
> care what translation it is...it is great carrying
> around a little "bible"
> and then show people that is actually the Bard. :)
> ---Wigger, by William Goldman
> ---Some Richard Brautigan broadsides
> ---A first edition Neverending Story with the
> alternating red and green type
> ---My signed Nicholson Baker collection
> 
> What are other collectors collecting now?
> 
> I'm not sure about Franzen. I think no one will give
> a hoot about the
> controversy or even remember it in ten more years.
> Nor will they remember
> James Frey for the same reason...our short attention
> span. As for DFW, I'm
> just not sure. Infinite Jest is one of those books
> that everyone bought but
> no one read (me, too!). Is it actually a good book?
> 
> Sincerely,
>  
> Chris Kubica
> 
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