Recent purchases

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Yr Hobyd — O'r diwedd! The first Welsh translation of The Hobbit.

https://nation.cymru/culture/yr-hobyd-t ... -in-welsh/

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^ It's all Sindarin to me!

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It's Vintage Paper Fair time again! I spent over 6½ hours rummaging through thousands of postcards. In the end, I bought 41 cards but only paid a total of $15 for the lot. Most of the cards I bought were priced at 25 cents apiece, but here are a couple of my $1 cards:



The card with the Russian (?) woman is unused but dated 1916. The dunce cat was mailed from Oil City, PA, to Kinsman, OH, in 1907.

While I was in San Francisco, I also picked up a couple of records at Amoeba Music on Haight: a used LP of Wild Animal by Vanity (in pristine condition) and a used double LP of Alles von Karl Valentin und Liesl Karlstadt, which was in the world music clearance bin for only $1.99.

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Today I received an eBay lot of various Esperanto items from the archives of Forrest J Ackerman, whose name should be familiar to any serious sci-fi nerds out there. One of the items is a postcard sent to Ackerman in 1938 by someone with the nickname Covonjo. I did some research and identified Covonjo as Celia Winnick, who later led an Esperanto group at the Baha'i Center in Los Angeles.




Also in the lot were drafts of two letters that Ackerman wrote in Esperanto in 1935, when he was only 19 but clearly very active in the Esperanto and science fiction communities.