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February 23, 2006

Vollmann Rising Up

In the interview that I linked to in my morning post, William T. Vollmann mentioned that the original seven-volume set of Rising Up and Rising Down is now out of print.  This led me to wonder just how much this nice, mint-condition, still never read collection of books sitting on top of one of my bookshelves might be worth.  So a quick check of Amazon made me, well, consider the future of my ownership of this collection.  Right now, the low price for the set is $475.  Do you know how many boxes of diapers or bottles of baby food that much cash could buy? 

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Beautiful. So if I hold on to mine for a good 20 years, how much will it fetch?

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