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134, 20 April 2009

BookThinker #134, Special Report 2, 18 May 2009


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Building a Bookselling Reference Library
Part VI:
The Book Collector's Guide
to L. Frank Baum and Oz

I recently had the pleasure to examine a new collector's guide that, I must say, surely sets a standard for this kind of reference - Paul R. Bienvenue and Robert E. Schmidt's The Book Collector's Guide to L. Frank Baum and Oz. [Read the complete article here.]


QMR Book of the Month
How to Print T-Shirts for Fun and Profit

At first glance, you might be scratching your chin on this one - a 40-year-old book on how to print T-shirts for fun and profit is actually worth something today? Well, yes - and no. Author Scott Fresener started a T-shirt business in 1969, the story goes, with a paltry $500 investment and quickly built it into something special. Nine years later he published a how-to book that was also special, so much so that it sold way over 100,000 copies. As with many other books we've featured here, some guys have a gift to teach, and Fresener is one of them. How to Print T-Shirts for Fun and Profit is an exceptional teaching tool and the standard guide in the field - the bible - and has been for decades. [Read the complete article here.]

 

 

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