A remarkable experience...

Sometimes little things happen that have a great "feel" to them. I met a collector recently who spent over 30 years seeking a particular volume, inscribed by Arthur Conan Doyle. It has a remarkable little quantrain damning the pirate publisher and, almost best of all, he circled the publishers mark and drew a little "skull and crossed bones" flag on it. It was an amazing thing to hold in my hands...both for the fact that Doyle himself held the book and vented his well-known contempt for pirates in such a clever way upon it...but also because it is such a testament to the book hunt. To spend decades seeking unique book that you *know* exists...but can not find. To finally have it in your hands. It is the cornerstone of this collector's remarkable library...and rightly so. It made my month to simply hold it for a moment or two.