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My mom had a yard sale last saturday so i brought some junk over to sell. Well it didnt go so well the traffic was slow and it doesnt help that she lives on a side road .
I got bored and started sifting through some old books she was selling for a qurater , and found what yard sale junkies wish for hidden treasure
I found a second printing of Peter Pan that my great grandfather had . All the pages are there and what i found inside was awsome . I found a full page obituary of the writer of Peter Pan Sir J.M Barrie in the New York Herold Tribune from June 30, 1937
I then found a first printing of Bambi before Disney got its nasty little hands on the property dated 1929
Digging a bit more i found a 3rd eddition Winnie the Pooh from 1958
Of all of that stuff i would say the Obit as tattered and torn up as it is (i taped what i could back together) has to be my favorite find ..its not somthing you come across every day . Seeing its condition i am going to frame it and get an extra for my Charles Schultz obit from a few years back so it doesnt crumble away
That second printing Peter Pan might be worth a little change too. 😉 depending on the condition. I really like books. I have all kinds and lots of autographed. 🙂
im sure they are worth some money they are all in really good condition , no torn pages or any missing . Im going to put them away to give to Alyssa when she is old enough to appreciate them . They all came from my Great Grandfather so i want to keep them in the family
OMG! I’ve been looking for an old Peter Pan for about two years now. If you change your mind and decide to sell it, please let me know! I almost bought one in England, but it was huge and wouldn’t have fit in my luggage.
that’s an incredible find! congrats! 😀 I have one of the old publishings of Bambi, myself…and it’s a totally different story from what Disney changed it to.
purplecat wrote:that’s an incredible find! congrats! 😀 I have one of the old publishings of Bambi, myself…and it’s a totally different story from what Disney changed it to.
Really? I always thought Bambi was a Disney original. How does the story differ?
I read Bambi years ago – if I remember correctly Faleen had a brother who was injured. So somebody takes him in and nurses him back to health and then releases him back into the wild. But he has lost his fear of man so he approaches the hunters. 😥 And I think there was a lot more of Bambi with his dad. But it’s been years and I don’t remember all the details.
In the original book of The Fox and the Hound the hound kills the fox at the end. Disney really changed that story!
Oh, what a find! I would see about getting the news article preserved, and maybe get a scan of it somewhere. Maybe someone at the local library. Is there a college nearby? Stop by or give a call to the archivist for advice. They might have some advice or be willing to assist you, or at least point you in the right direction. Or check with a preservation society or museum. A photocopy or scan could be used to ‘show and tell’ or put in a scrapbook, helping limit the handling of the article itself. 🙂
I have some newspapers from WWII (including one from the execution of Mussolini), that was found in our floor boards. I also have a Broadway show list from a newspaper back in the 1920’s or 30’s, complete with a political cartoon!
I know someone who had a copy of the Dark Crystal before it was ever a movie! Very neat!
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