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

Democratic Natinal Convention 1968 vs 2008

The 1968 political convention is certainly a good piece of history that puts all of this year's political convention bru ha ha in perspective. This website has probably the best recap that I've seen: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/

This is why I don't get overly excited when I see the "loss of freedoms" that many think is just happening in USA - I was in my 20s for this and the "Kent State" killings - add in the L.A. Riots in the 70s and I don't see the 50s view of the USA (from a white northern girl's perspective) that is the view we like to see of ourselves. Politics are not now nor have they even been a simple matter of going to the polls, casting a vote (one person one vote) and the most popular person wins - no way - even in USA. If I remember my US history correctly, votes used to be sold for booze and other voting corruption has been "rumored" since there has been voting.

Here is a link to details of the Kent State Shootings, May 4, 1970 in the free USA, 4 college students were killed and 9 more were injured for being in the area of or dissenting a war - on a college campus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Historical_background

Politics are politics. Politicians are politicians. Power is power. Put them all together and you get violence and sex and taxes. It is good to keep it in mind and remember that only the people change and that this year that progress is measured in that the people playing look different than they did in the 50s, 60s, 70s. But the outcome is the same. The war is different but the arguments are the same. No matter who wins we'll still have taxes, wars, arguing and sex and the votes won't all be counted and it won't be fair. But hopefully the progress will be measured in that the National Guard won't be shooting.

But then again, is that really progress? That '68 generation has too much to loose (and are too tired) to demonstrate and the kids in their 20s don't demonstrate anymore. How do you measure progress? No demonstrations or no national guard on the streets?

Whoever you are voting for, vote once!

Madlyn

Bookseller Travel Saving TIps

For my bookseller and other friends who like to (or must) save money while traveling:

1. Have you tried "googling" for cheaper airport parking? I was able to park for $7.00 per night in Tampa (FL) with a free shuttle that ran just as quickly as the on-site car shuttles. I also printed a coupon from the internet search and saved one night's charge. I had no problem retrieving my car or using the coupon. I wish we had have thought of this option when we went to Hawaii.

2. Lifting boxes of books over the years has taken its toll on my back and sitting on the plane for hours sounded like an invitation to pain. I purchased and used Heat Wraps during the trip - I experienced no back pain. These are air activated 8 hour heat items which evidently prevented the muscle spasms (and kept me warm on the plane). They sell smaller ones for your shoulders also. I bought them at the drug store on a 2-1 sale so this hint was very lost cost. Worked for me.

3. I took packages (not the box to save room) of flavored instant oatmeal in addition to a plastic bag full of regular instant oatmeat. By mixing them together I didn't need to take sugar, etc. and I didn't have to eat out for breakfast. I took and added trail mix (nuts, etc) to the oatmeal mixture to make it just like eating at home to keep all systems active and my weight and cholesterol down!

4. Without a doubt I took my own coffee in a plastic bag. I don't want to have to get dressed and "made up" just to have a cup of coffee in the AM (sounds too much like going to work for me). I think the trick is to take just the right amount of coffee in a plastic bag so it is gone when you come home and you then have room for gifts.

5. I used Price Line to rent the car for my last trip and saved 30%. I don't know why the cost of a week's rental car in Detroit, MI was more in February than a rental car for the same number of days in Hawaii in January but I was able to save using Price Line. Again, I wish I'd thought about it for the Hawaii trip. NOTE: There are no refunds with Price Line - if your trip is canceled for weather or illness or whatever you pay for the rental anyways.

6. The one thing I won't do again is book the side trips through Expedia when I make a plane reservation. They advertise as being the guaranteed lowest cost - which, I'm not going to argue - but I found that having to GO TO ANOTHER LOCATION to get the tickets to be annoying at best and impossible if your trip is tight in the scheduling department. And there is no refund if you don't go get the tickets, you need to keep track of the reservation numbers - blah blah blah. I didn't read that little detail at Expedia when I booked and am glad I only booked for one ticket that way.

7. The last money savings tip I tried was my first and probably last time we'll do it but we saved the most by actually going to one of those time share presentations. I know, I know...but, we couldn't get into the condo until 4:00 PM and we had a lot of time to kill so we decided to take them up on the free lunch and tour of the new facility.

I actually found the presentation to be interesting and the lunch very good - an event unto itself. Of course, there was no way that we were likely candidates for spending $44,000 for "8000 points" so we could vacation there or anywhere else they have properties...well, they say they don't expect everyone to buy and we saved $125.00 on the tour of The Road to Hana - which we enjoyed lot.

Well, that is it (besides actually cooking in the condo for lunch or dinner but you all know that cost savings trick).