I also found a copy of a book that I bought in a huge collection for an average price of about 7 cents per book. I thought it was a German book, and since I studied German in high school, I thought I'd put it on my shelf and try to read it one day myself. Several years later I dusted the book off and opened it up.
The book wasn't German, but was an unusual English book, entitled:
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut by Harold Chase.
It seems that Mr. Chase's grandfather came from the Old Country and had a deep accent, and count never get the English words pronounced corrected. He managed to mangle every word. But he would always tell Harold stories and fairy tales. "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" was the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with each and every word in the story mis-pronounced to sound like a similar word. Another story in the book, I believe, was "Tray Ladle Picks" for the Three Little Pigs.
I checked on abebooks.com and there were only 6 surviving copies at the time, with the least expensive going for $175 and the most expensive for about $300.
Someone put a Want up on eBay's old Want Board. I looked at the book, which I had already read, and sold it to the person for $150. Not bad for a 7 cent purchase.
Wayne Stoler
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