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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5438371, member: 110504&quot;][USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER], weird that you should bring up the subject of incomplete sets.</p><p>In the, what, mid-late &#039;80s, there was this one bookstore that I could get to on a Saturday, after a long bus ride.&nbsp; The bookstore happened to coincide with the the best academic library I ever had access to, in a different but (from there) easily accessible part of town.</p><p>...Sorry; point being, the bookstore was literally three or four floors of brilliantly, may we say, selectively organized chaos.*&nbsp; Going there was something vaguely between a flea market and an archeological dig.&nbsp; That&#039;s how I wound up with incomplete sets of all kinds of 18th-century stuff, in English, some of it from London, some from Dublin, but all in what was left of the original calf bindings.</p><p>*I&#039;m sure they spotted all the first editions of, say, Faulkner and Steinbeck.&nbsp; ...Can&#039;t fault &#039;em....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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