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Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf
AP on Yahoo ^
| 11/22/09
Posted on 11/22/2009 10:33:03 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LONDON – An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Christie's auction house said Sunday the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.
The book will be auctioned on Tuesday, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famous work. Christie's said the book is likely to sell for 60,000 pounds ($99,000).
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: book; bookshelf; charlesdarwin; originofspecies; toilet
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I wonder how many pages are missing 8-?
To: NormsRevenge; GodGunsGuts
Evolution rocks ... and sells, too.
To: NormsRevenge
This is too easy...
“That’s right where the Darwin book belongs.”
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:36:26 AM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
(First they ignore you,then they laugh at you,then they fight you,then you win.-Ghandi)
To: TheConservativeParty
You beat me to it. I thought it would have been used for wipes a long time ago, or at least fell into the crapper from time to time?
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:38:04 AM PST
by
john drake
(Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
To: TheConservativeParty
You beat me to it. I thought it would have been used for wipes a long time ago, or at least fell into the crapper from time to time?
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:38:45 AM PST
by
john drake
(Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
To: NormsRevenge
Seems the appropriate place for it.....
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:38:54 AM PST
by
Mom MD
(Jesus is the Light of the world!)
To: NormsRevenge
I wonder how many years it sat there with nobody reading it? I suspect the current owner’s grandfather probably put it down, and no one has picked it up since.
In any case, lucky find.
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:39:17 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
Survival of the least soft and absorbent.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:41:00 AM PST
by
niteowl77
(You wanted him, and now you have got him. I say, "Good day to you," America.)
To: NormsRevenge
I say, that chap was in an awful hurry to evacuate the laboratory...
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:42:00 AM PST
by
Errant
(`)
To: TheConservativeParty
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:45:47 AM PST
by
Duffboy
To: TheConservativeParty
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:45:47 AM PST
by
Duffboy
To: Cicero
Lucky find indeed.
In my upstairs bathroom I'm reading Mary McCarthy's Venice Observed.
The downstairs loo has Lynne Truss' grammar book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
If I took a fiber supplement regularly I'd probably be making better progress...
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:47:04 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: niteowl77
Please don't squeeze the Darwin!
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:49:20 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: NormsRevenge
...found in a family's guest lavatory... Otherwise known as "the Library".
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posted on
11/22/2009 10:51:52 AM PST
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
To: NormsRevenge
People don’t want guests lingering too long in the loo so they stock it with books that no one reads.
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:04:40 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take another beating.)
To: Duffboy
And “who is Jim Thompson?”.
: )
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:10:14 AM PST
by
TheConservativeParty
(First they ignore you,then they laugh at you,then they fight you,then you win.-Ghandi)
To: NormsRevenge
It was probably where Darwin wrote it too.
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
11/22/2009 11:31:23 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: MotleyGirl70; onedoug; earlJam; Cagey
To: NormsRevenge
ROFL, my very first thought as well. Just "shows to go" what it was worth at the time.
Darwin/Al Gore same/same
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