Arthur Newman's Books For Auction

[garthsj]

Jim Harrod posted the following on the West Coast Jazz site yesterday. I thought that some here would be interested.

A while back I made a post to the list to the effect that Arthur Newman's entire collection of jazz books including his vast personal collection had been consigned to a book dealer in the east who would be putting them up for auction.

The auction house is currently offering this collection on Ebay, grouping the books in related lots of four or five books per lot, with a very low starting bid. You can view a sample collection at:

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayIS...611049&rd=1

Click on "view seller's other items to see the other lots in this group of 249.

Jim

P.S. I have also provided a condensed url below.

http://tinyurl.com/24g4n8

[sheldonm]

I've been to a couple events where Arthur was selling his books. He had a ton of them, many I had never seen...some that were still available from various sources and not that tough to find were a little overpriced.

m

[brownie]

Quite an impressive collection!

Wish I had more place to store some of the items!

[Ken Dryden]

Did you see the buyer's premium of 20% added on top? Even if I saw something I wanted, I'd search elsewhere.

[Adam]

It looks like they all just closed an hour ago - ah well, and most for $10-15 for 4 or 5 books. Ah, well, I woudl have gone for one or two of those lots.