(So what is a YAY Thing? LOL ...just an idiosyncracy of mine. When i discover something new (new to me that is) or experienced an exhilirathing something, my immediate reaction is YAY!!!!)
Yesterday, i bought at a fund raising display, 78 pieces of science fiction and fanstasy pocketbooks at 3 pieces for 100.
Since I am a SciFi Fanatic from the tip of my nice toes to the top of my nice head, this is a kind of YAY thing.
Its like a finding a left handed Chambered Nautilus shell. Shells are all right-handed, with rare exceptions; and, when by chance their spiral is left, amateurs are ready to pay their weight in gold.
The University of Winnipeg just sold one of the largest collections of science fiction in the world , off to a private dealer. The University couldn't afford to store the 30,000+ books any longer, so it sold them off to an American dealer for $140K, $110K less than the assessed value. Contained in the collection are first-edition books such as the Dune, the Herbert books, the Asimov, Edward Rice Burroughs. Whoa!!! Makes my mouth water.