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Item 13: Autographed Copies of Brighn's Novel

Entered by popcorn on Sat May 11 12:34:26 1996:

Donated by Paul Kershaw (brighn):
Three copies of my novel, published a few years back (The Search for the
Rabbit, P. Luc Valloglise  {then my pen-name}, Lorien House, 1989), signed
by the author.  And just because that's the way I am, I;'ll throw in my
DTP booklet versions of "The Forest Suite" (a poem, Selena's 22 birthday
gift) and "Allister MacAllister" (a short story I made up i booklet form
just because I felt like it).

[The novel goes to the three highest bidders.  The poem and short story,
assuming there is one copy of each, both go to the highest bidder along
with the novel.  -vm]
23 responses total.
#1 of 23 by brighn on Sat May 11 14:57:01 1996:

(The booklets are from my own printer, so yeah, there'll be thre
copies of each...)

#2 of 23 by robh on Sun May 12 08:31:12 1996:

I'll start off at $10.

#3 of 23 by brighn on Sun May 12 17:53:20 1996:

This applies to all the items with multiple copies of things:
remember that the top *3* bids will get this, so if someone
starts high, you can bid lower than them and still get a chance
to get the item... not that I'm encouraging low bids, just that I'm
terminally modest except when I'm in my prima donna (prime don? --
what's the masculine, anyone?  Anyone?  Buehler?)...
anyway, I'd say a minimum bid for this would be $5.  =}
I'll stop editorializing my own donation now.  Bubye.

#4 of 23 by freida on Mon May 13 18:46:38 1996:

$5

#5 of 23 by popcorn on Tue May 14 03:59:30 1996:

$5.50

#6 of 23 by brighn on Thu May 16 16:00:29 1996:

Just think how valuable these will be when I'm richand famous...
*trying to encourage bids here =} *
Especially the booklets, since I'm not planning on running off more
than a half dozen or so.  *g*

#7 of 23 by brighn on Sun May 19 15:42:28 1996:

Val suggests having a plot might help...
O.k.,  The Search for the Rabbit was written as a sequel of sorts
to the Alice in Wonderland books by Lewis Carroll.  The protagonist
is Allisson Liddell, Alice's grand-neice, and she's brought back
to Wonderland because the White Rabbit is missing.  I've been told
that some elementary teachers were using this for their classes, 
though the book was written more for adults than for children, and
some of the vocabulary might be a little high for the youngest tots.
There's a lot of different adventures, poetry, interesting (and new
) characters... most people who've read it have been impressed,
including one person who picked it up off his wife's bookshelf not knowing it
was  was mine.  I realize from readingg #1 I may have given the impression this
was vanity pressed.  It wasn't.  This is a real publisher; the  book just
happens to be out of print, and I have some copies laying about.  The booklets
are bonusses; one is a poem that is currently awainting response from Green
Egg, the other is a short story about a murderous leprechaun... both are great
fun, and are printed up nice and spiff for display. Heck, you can even specify
paper color for the booklets if you want... =}  (I have white, beige, gray,
pink, and lilac.) I set the minimum bid at $5, but they're worth a lot more
than that to me... won't you please give these fine works of literature a home?

#8 of 23 by shade on Sun May 19 15:46:13 1996:

(it's a really good book)

#9 of 23 by natbaird on Mon May 20 00:22:28 1996:

$6

#10 of 23 by popcorn on Mon May 20 03:25:27 1996:

I've read some of Brighn's writing on Grex; I like it a lot.  I'd expect this
book to be good too....

#11 of 23 by scg on Mon May 20 05:22:40 1996:

I won't bid on this, because I already have a copy of it.  I haven't had time
to finish it yet, but it's a good book from what I've read of it so far.

#12 of 23 by robh on Mon May 20 16:28:25 1996:

Current bids ar $10 from robh, $6 from natbaird, and
$5.50 from popcorn.  Last bid was made yesterday.

#13 of 23 by janc on Mon May 20 20:29:48 1996:

I bid $9.

#14 of 23 by freida on Tue May 21 23:51:58 1996:

$10

#15 of 23 by popcorn on Wed May 22 06:06:43 1996:

$10

#16 of 23 by robh on Wed May 22 07:04:30 1996:

Current bids are all $10, from robh, freida, and popcorn.

#17 of 23 by janc on Wed May 22 15:32:06 1996:

$11

#18 of 23 by janc on Wed May 22 15:33:27 1996:

by the way, equal value bids are problematic -- we now have $11, $10, and $10
but it's unclear which of the three people who bid $10 would be getting books.

#19 of 23 by robh on Wed May 22 16:06:53 1996:

Indeed, it is a problem.  From this point on, I'd appreciate it
if nobody puts in a bid equal to any other bid.  At least tack
on an extra penny, that way we won't have any ambiguity.

To do my own part to remove the ambiguity, I bid $15.

#20 of 23 by freida on Wed May 22 22:22:32 1996:

$16.

#21 of 23 by robh on Fri May 24 13:28:43 1996:

Current bids are $16 from freida, $15 from robh, and $11 from janc.
The last bid was made two days ago.

#22 of 23 by robh on Tue May 28 02:10:01 1996:

Two days to go on the current bids.  Going, going, ...

#23 of 23 by robh on Thu May 30 18:57:59 1996:

And the bidding is closed, and the three items are SOLD to
freida ($16), robh ($15), and janc ($11).

freida, robh, and janc, make your check payable to
Cyberspace Communications and send it to:

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