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SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....
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And what was wrong with the 1982 Reader's Digest Bible?
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Rockmaple - That is the Book!

 

Bugler1998 - That version removed about one-quarter of the text from the New Testament and more than half of the text from the Old Testament.

 

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840. What children's classic was banned for several years (until a revised edition was published) due to a chatty parrot's remarks that were determined to be racist?

 

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840. Polynesia who taught Doctor Doolittle to speak with the animals.

Some revisions explained here: blog.plover.com/book/Dolittle.html

Interesting background on Hugh Lofting: puddleby.tripod.com/author.html

Pertinent quote: "I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. . . . There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst 'Juveniles.' It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there should be a category of 'Seniles' to offset the epithet."
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Booquemeister - You have the correct parrot and book! Thanks for the additional info.

 


841. What author claimed (perhaps with tongue-in-cheek) that his two most famous books were written "for adults exclusively"and that he was "distressed"when children were given access to them?

 

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841.  Mark Twain - Twain wrote the above in a reply to a 1905 letter from a professor at Brooklyn College, whose library had removed Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer from the children's shelves.

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Mmadigan - You found the right guy!  It is so Twain imo.

 

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842. A collective noun attributed to a beloved author's chapter title pun
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Hint: gives a hoot

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843. I keep hoping lludwig hasn't left the building, but here's a visual quiz in her stead. What's wrong with this dust jacket?

 

Found on a 1st edition. The answer is in the image (nothing to do with the photo credit or anything else not visible.)

 

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843. The positioning of the $2.75 is wrong - it's too far to the left.

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Gold star for Argon.

 

Not only is the price slightly to the left, but it's the wrong font. Someone's attempt to deceive by doctoring a price-clipped DJ and producing an (undisclosed) facsimile.

 

Jacket was sealed in a Brodart cover with those annoying adhesive tabs and married to a 1st edition. First clue, apart from the visual, was that the book it was added to showed signs of years spent sans DJ.

 

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Good work, unmasking that sly piece of deception. (I couldn't figure out at first what was supposed to be wrong.with it.)

 

844. Which collectable book - published in 1965 - had a first-issue binding that is notoriously susceptible to oxidation?

 

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Emmbook - Thanks for thinking about me and posting a question. Also thanks to others for posting questions. I have to update my files with ones that have been posted. I did leave the building for a nice long break. Early one morning I pulled up the board and read the titles of new threads and grew weary and shut down the board without reading anything. Several months later I checked back but could only get to threads that I had either started. A sidebar did show new topics but could not get the whole board to show. A couple of months later I checked in again and lo and behold, it was back to where I could view all the threads on one page - a change for the better! So now I am back (after a three week cross-country road trip).

 

844. The Man with the Golden Gun

 

I have more guesses if this isn't the one!

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Spot on. lludwig - The Man with the Golden Gun was the one had in mind (what were your other guesses?)

 

I know just what you mean about the weary feeling! Glad to see you back. And over to you for Q. 845.

 

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