Some are renegades and, yes, there are a few psychos.
He can be quiet and humble or aggressive and intimidating. He’s an outcast, a fighter, or a man who’s been driven out of every other line of work. He operates out of the trunk of a car, if he’s lucky enough to have a car, out of a knapsack or a bike bag if he isn’t. He’s a guy who can’t make it in the real world. But the real bookscout, the pro, has changed very little in the last thirty years. Doctors and lawyers with six-figure incomes prowl the thrift stores and garage sales, hoping to pick up a treasure for pennies on the dollar. This is an age when almost everyone scouts for books. You should know something about bookscouts and the world they go around in. In life, Bobby would never walk under a ladder, so it would seem ironic to some people in the Denver book trade when they heard in the morning that he had died there. He was found in an alley under one of those pulldown iron ladders that give access to a fire escape-another odd thing. This was the first strange fact, leading to the question, What was he doing out that late at night? To Bobby, midnight was the witching hour and Friday the thirteenth was a day to be spent in bed. And so it goes.īobby the bookscout was killed at midnight on June 13, 1986. Interview with the Vampire is usually seen at $600 plus. Catcher in the Rye, for example, is now a $1,500 piece. Values on some books have risen dramatically in five years. Dealers who would argue with the author over prices should remember that the story takes place in 1986. To the Denver antiquarian book trade: the good, the bad, and the uglyĬertain unique books discussed in Booked to Die (Hawthorne’s copy of Moby Dick and Mencken’s copy of This Side of Paradise, among others) have been fictionalized for the sake of the story and may actually reside in real libraries, public or private. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataīooked to die: a mystery introducing Cliff Janeway/John Dunning. Any resemblance to events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Macmillan Publishing Company is part of the Maxwell Communication Group of Companies. Macmillan Publishing Company 200 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 200Ĩ66 Third Avenue Don Mills, Ontario M3C 3N1 New York, NY 10022
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.Ĭharles Scribner’s Sons Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Inc. The colorful pop-ups, no doubt inspired by imagery found in cartoon/comic books, dramatically rise off the surface as the page is turned greatly enhancing the enjoyment of reading this book.All rights reserved. To see a video on the pop-ups in this book follow this l ink. The four pop-ups –one with the figure of Pinocchio reading, one with a circus scene, one of Pinocchio’s house, and one of a whale – employ v-fold and box-cylinder paper construction methods on each two-page spread. Lentz who also designed similar works including the Pop-up Mother Goose, Sleeping Beauty, and Jack the Giant Killer. Lentz was a talented graphic designer. He skillfully incorporates whimsical drawings throughout this book to illustrate this delightful fairytale as well as creating its colorful endpapers and cover.
The art work and pop-up constructions for The Pop-up Pinocchio are the creation of Harold B.
Originally created as a series for an Italian newspaper by Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) in the 1880s, the classic fairytale of Pinocchio was soon published into a book, translated in many languages, appeared in many illustrated editions in the early 20 th century, and later a feature in a Disney animated film in 1940. In this story, an elderly wood carver named Geppetto creates a puppet named Pinocchio who yearns to be a real boy. Pinocchio has many adventures in his journey to become human. He grapples with the challenges of becoming a well behaved child facing the visible stigma of having his nose grow each time he does not tell the truth. In the 1930s, Blue Ribbon Books and Pleasure Books, who published a series of colorful pop-up books including The Pop-up Pinocchio, were the first to coin the phrase “pop-up book”. In a five year period, they produced more than ten remarkable pop-up books on classic fairy tales including Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack the Giant Killer, Puss in Boots, and Little Red Riding Hood. Each of these titles featured large print text, thick board paper, colorful cartoon-like images and well constructed pop-ups that greatly appeal to children of all ages.