Me? I haven't been on eBay in months . . .

Maybe on a set of 50's lamps, but I've got plenty of old dusty books :D

of course - but its a chance to get some new friends. ;-)

well i wasn't sure stuart. there must be some other diners interested in lettering books on the web. ;^)

just curious,
Paul, what's your user name?
and what kind of lettering book was it?

pauldhunt that's me and it was a vintage Speedball lettering book (that webdiner beat me on). I think an identical one went up today tho, so hopefully i'll get it this time! oh and another ATF catalog went up today, but i've spent too much money on books this month already.

www.bookfinder.com
is another easy place to get the
Ross F. George Speedball handbooks.
Sometimes I'll see something on ebay
and find it cheaper via the bookfinder
network.

thanks for the tip, beej! i guess i'll hafta start looking there first. any alternative places to pick up specimen books? ;^)

sorry thomas, i couldn't let you have that one for $12. *evil grin*
but it won't hurt my feelings if you outbid me.

I've already got a copy, so I'm no hurting any. I just thought if I could get it cheap I'd donate it to the TypeCon or ATypI auction or some such. Or give it to somebody as a present.

Cheers,

T

Perhaps we should have somekind of online archive of the type spec books we all have. It would be a slow process to scan in all the pages, but winter is coming...

I also got an email today from Brian about a book we were both bidding on, I think it was very nice of him to drop out of a auction when he noticed he was bidding against a fellow typophile, and I'll be checking who is bidding before jumping in, and trying not to bid against typophiles.

yes, some nice eye candy for the Uppercase section perhaps?

I'll contribute.

Count me in as well.

Just point me at the archive once it's set up...