With the recent surge in US COVID cases and SW Airlines not continuing the vacant middle row policy, our Arizona daughter/family decided not to fly here for Christmas. They would not drive this far to visit us. Therefore, the wife and I boarded the dogs, packed up the car and drove 15 hours to Phoenix. When we were 20 minutes from their home, my wife received a text from a friend who had recently visited us stating she had been tested positive for COVID. The day we arrived was 9 days from when our friend visited us, so we made the decision to drop off our packages and stay at a hotel. The next day had been 10 days, so later that afternoon we were able to visit our kids. This virus sux.
Our kids visited us las October and our son in law was iffy about buying a set of books by a British author on the history of the British Army. My SIL is a history professor and a book collector. (The Twilight Zone did a show with a character that could have been my SIL. The world had been destroyed, but the library and the character was saved from destruction. He marveled at the books in the library at his disposal. Then, the worst thing happened, the crushed his glasses and could not read.). My wife and I encouraged him to offer the UK gentleman with the book collection how much he was willing to pay and suck it up. Well, he did and the UK gentleman accepted the offer and sent the books. The books were written in the latter part of the 19th century over a 30 year period into the early 20th century. Most are first edition books with some second edition.
I was looking at one book with an Oxford Library identification label pasted inside the cover. I told my SOL the seller stole it from Oxford . Not getting the joke he told me the seller assembled the books from various sources. The author is John Fortescue. The set includes the books documenting the British Army history, plus about a half dozen separate books containing maps. Very interesting stuff. I took a pic of my SIL with his new collection...
Dec 30, 2020 at 04:06 PM
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. Not getting the joke he told me the seller assembled the books from various sources. The author is John Fortescue. The set includes the books documenting the British Army history, plus about a half dozen separate books containing maps. Very interesting stuff. I took a pic of my SIL with his new collection...