FS: Hummingbirds & More

Book: · #6366 Ruschi, Auguston: BEIJA-FLORES DO ESTADO DO ESPIRITO SANTO Hummingbirds of State of Espirito Santo. Editora Rios, Brazil. 1982 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing, Illus. by Etienne Demonte Illus Type Color Plates Hardcover Size Folio 13" - 23" tall A beautiful scientific book on humminbirds. In addition to the 29 color plates, the professor provides the Latin names, identifies the body parts, and describes the characterics of the birds. Everything you've always wanted to know and see in up close color! Whether you are a collector of all things Hummingbird or a student of this amazing creature or love the illustrator, you will want this book. Etienne Demonte is a Brazilian naturalist-painter who lives (at that time) in Rio de Janeiro. Defects include a small piece seemingly cut from top of DJ and a couple of other minor flaws. The book has a small cut our of front fly leaf at top and prior owners stamp on bottom of title page. The color plates and all other pages are in perfect condition. 263 pgs. Book VG+/ DJ G+ $225.00

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This nice cream purse is dressy style - $25.00 plus postage.
This is Arcadia, FL where every 4th Saturday a nice antique fair is held outside - on the sidewalks and all available locations downtown. When you finish shopping outside you can go inside to the antique shops to spend the rest of your cash and enjoy the a.c.

Robie Robot - from early 80s (Radio Shack) missing the tray. $50.00 plus shipping.

FS: Depression Glass Vase & Disney Mickey Mouse

1. This 8" H Napco forest green flower vase is in excellent condition. It has one circular shape to the base and middle and a bell shape at the rim. It comes from the depression glass era and would be a compliment to any table top. Mark: Napco 1172 Cleveland USA. $55.00 plus shipping. 2. Mickey Mouse Soap Dish with Disney Copyright Mark. 5 1/2 inch wide by 4 1/2 in. (measured at longest point in ears.) Looks like shinny pewter to me. $45.00 plus shipping
3. Limited Edition Watercolor prints by Key West Florida Artist Ann Irvine. Approx 71/2 in x 10 in. Both Margaritaville and Duval St. are numbered and signed in pencil. She has such lovely interpretations of the spirit of Key West! Both are matted but not framed. Not available in shops now - only from collectors as she only did 100 of each. These are new - still in Price: $95.00 each. plus shipping.
4. This 8"H Napco forest green flower vase is in excellent condition. It has one circular shape to the base and middle and a bell shape at the rim. It comes from the depression glass era and would be a compliment to any table top. Mark: Napco 1172 Cleveland USA $55.00 plus shipping.
5. Book: · #6366 Ruschi, Auguston: BEIJA-FLORES DO ESTADO DO ESPIRITO SANTO Hummingbirds of State of Espirito Santo. Editora Rios, Brazil. 1982 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing, Illus. by Etienne Demonte Illus Type Color Plates Hardcover Size Folio 13" - 23" tall A beautiful scientific book on humminbirds. In addition to the 29 color plates, the professor provides the Latin names, identifies the body parts, and describes the characterics of the birds. Everything you've always wanted to know and see in up close color! Whether you are a collector of all things Hummingbird or a student of this amazing creature or love the illustrator, you will want this book. Etienne Demonte is a Brazilian naturalist-painter who lives (at that time) in Rio de Janeiro. Defects include a small piece seemingly cut from top of DJ and a couple of other minor flaws. The book has a small cut our of front fly leaf at top and prior owners stamp on bottom of title page. The color plates and all other pages are in perfect condition. 263 pgs. Book VG+/ DJ G+ $225.00

Medical Tourism

Hi Friends;

I'm reading an article about medical outsourcing or medical tourism as it is also known. (http://www.medicaltourism.com) and wonder if you know about it. The article I'm reading was in the Jan/Feb 2008 Saturday Evening Post.

If you need some major health procedure done that you can't afford (hip replacement, heart by-pass), you may be able to get your insurance to cover the procedure in Costa Rica, Thailand, India or the Philippines! Or, at lease save 75-90% if you pay for it yourself. Some insurance companies actually pay for a companion to go along with you, pay for both tickets and give you 20% of the difference in prices between the U.S. price and the foreign price! In Bangkok they pick you up at the airport. The quality is at least as good as U.S. because these boutique hospitals can't risk loosing the U.S. business.

If you are uninsured, this may be the only option, outside bankruptcy, to get your medical procedure.

The point of my telling you this is, of course, if you need a (free) companion to go along with you, my time can be flexible!!!

FS: New Arrivals

FS:

1. Moore, J. A.: Old Traverse City (Michigan) Gull Gallery, (1973, 1975), Traverse City, MI., 1975. softcover, 2nd.edition, 8 1/2"x 5 1/2", 121 pages, From original photograph ofpanoramic views, Front Street, Union Street, Boardman River, Logging,Ships, People, etc. If you've been there, you'll love to see what it used to be. If you've never been there, buy this to see what you've missed! fine-; $6.50 postage included.

2. NEWYORKSEPTEMBERELEVENTWOTHOUSANDONE . [Attack on the World Trade Centre, New York] (ISBN: 097057682X)
2001. Soft Cover. Fine. First Edition/Second Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. . Stunning and moving photography. One description on line " Abt. 150 pages of imperialist propaganda, with lots of photographs." Still shrink wrapped (I have a second copy I opened to get details). $20.00 ppd. media/U.S. more for internationally shipping.

3. Directory of Homeopathic Physicians, American Institute of Homeopathy, Chicago, 1925. v.g. brown cloth h.c., 310 pages plus ads. $75.00. ppd. U.S. media

4. Horne, Jed: Breach of Faith; Hurridane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City;, Random House, N.Y., 2006, 1st Ed, 1st printing, 412 pages, indexed. NF/NF $14.50 ppd.U.S media.

5. Hribal, C.J. The Cluds in Memphis (stories and novella), University of Mass Press, 2000, award winner for short fiction. NF/NF $10.00 PPD media U.S.



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Copyright or Public Domain?

A few basics on what is in the public domain and what is copyright protected. For starters, this article is copyrighted because I'm writing it after 1989 - even though I haven't sent it to some government agency for protection. However, some things automatically in the public domain (which means they can be reused without the authors permission): Fact, ideas, recipes and formulas, dedicated works, government works and expired works.

Today the definition of expired works is the author's death date + 70 years. Publications prior to 1922 are in the public domain.

For more details about the copyright laws just do a google search on Hirtle, copyright.
To find out more about public domain, go to creative commons.org.
For free images, google; images.gov (all government generated images and publications are in the public domain so you can use them, as I understand the laws.

Note: I'm not a lawyer but I did get this information from a lawyer and I'm sharing the information freely! Madlyn

Book Festival Fort Myers, FL

What a fun day! The weather was beautiful for this year's book festival, the event was well organized and I enjoyed the speakers. Tim Dorsey is signing one of his books in photo - he was on a small

panel of "Florida Men of Mystery". His books don't really interest me but he was an entertaining panelist. Bob Morris was my favorite on the panel but I haven't read anything by James O. Born, the other panelist.

The keynote speaker was Stuart Woods and I enjoyed him a lot - he was very humorous. He now has a three book per year contract and said he works only one hour per day. He said he doesn't use any assistant authors because he likes to keep all of the money himself!

Another panel was all about audio books. There were two readers, one producer and one author (Joe Hill) whose books had won an AUDIE for the audio performance. They talked a little business and did a little reading. Hill said that he thinks that the audio books enhance hard copy sales.

There were lots of authors signing and selling books, Books-A-Million was there selling featured authors books and more, there were a couple of used books dealers selling inside, and the Lee County library had many booths - for library cards, teaching how to download ebooks, selling book bags and reading to children, to mention a few.

If your community doesn't do something like this you might want to consider something like it. The attendees were from the very young to the very old and the promoters included not only book stores such as Books-A-Million but the local community grocery store (who handed out book bags with their logo to kids).

If you are looking for a good reason to get away from your weather next year, plan to come to Fort Myers, FL in March to attend the 10th annual book festival - as you can see, it is a pretty place to be in March. Madlyn