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10-25-2016 09:31 AM
10-25-2016 09:48 AM
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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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10-26-2016 09:52 AM
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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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10-26-2016 03:32 PM
10-26-2016 03:56 PM
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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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10-26-2016 04:12 PM
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.
10-26-2016 04:37 PM - edited 10-26-2016 04:37 PM
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Mmadigan - You found the right guy! It is so Twain imo.
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10-26-2016 06:52 PM
10-28-2016 07:05 PM
Hint: gives a hoot
01-07-2017 11:41 AM
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.)
01-08-2017 10:41 AM
843. The positioning of the $2.75 is wrong - it's too far to the left.
01-08-2017 02:38 PM
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.
01-08-2017 05:46 PM
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?
05-03-2017 10:45 AM
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!
05-03-2017 12:18 PM
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.