RE: [Paddlewise] Stephens's "Canoe and Boat Building"

While I'm not an accountant or a tax person, I would assume
this potential first edition may have a monetary value which
could be a deduction on income tax if the book is given to a
museum or library.  I suggest a value be determined prior to
making the donation so that Jim can get some credit for having
the wisdom to buy the book and keep it in good condition all 
this time.

Now I have to go look at the back of the picture I bought at that
garage sale to see if an original Declaration of Independence 
happens to be there.

Larry Mills

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Natalie Wiest [SMTP:wiestn_at_tamug.tamu.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, July 09, 1999 11:26 A.M.
> To:	paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Subject:	Re: [Paddlewise] Stephens's "Canoe and Boat Building"
> 
> Below is a snipped message from Jim Holman, and my response to it:
> 
> At 10:51 AM 6/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >While doing some research on the internet prior to purchasing a canoe, I
> kept coming across references to a book by W. P. Stephens called Canoe and
> Boat Building for Amateurs, which was published before the turn of the
> century.  
> [snip] The one I have is from 1885, with a copyright date of 1884.  So I'm
> assuming that the one I have is either a first or second edition.  I
> haven't seen any references at all to this edition -- only to the 1889 or
> '91 editions.  [snip]
> 
> The best place to look for descriptive information on out of print books,
> ones that are held in major libraries, is a subscription-only database,
> the
> World Cat[alog], from OCLC in Ohio.  In that database on a quick and dirty
> search, I have found no holdings for a paper format copy of this
> presumably
> first edition.  Two libraries list microform holdings that are copies of
> it.  By 1891 it was in its 5th edition.  In 1987 the Mystic Seaport Museum
> published Fifty Plates from...the 1885 and 1898 editions, "Printing plates
> were made directly from the original plates, preserved by the G.W. Blunt
> Library"[Mystic Seaport Museum?].  Presumably that library has the book as
> well as the plates, but that's not a certainty.
> 
> I'd be delighted to have a copy of this book here in the Williams Library,
> Texas Maritime Academy, Texas A&M University at Galveston.  Your local
> public library would no doubt be interested too, or the Hatfield Marine
> Science Center Library there in Newport, Oregon.
> 
> Natalie, "the paddling librarian"
> 
> 
> 
> Natalie Wiest, Library Director
> Jack K. Williams Library, Texas A&M University at Galveston
> P.O. Box 1675  Galveston TX 77553   U.S.A.
> Phone:  (409)740-4567   Fax:  (409)740-4702
> Email:  wiestn_at_tamug.tamu.edu
> 
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