Hi Anne, everybody, A reprint for those old convention books would be nice, even though it's quite easy to find "pirate" pdf for them (I'm not saying that I approve that or anything else).
As collector, I'm looking for the original edition, and paying several hundred dollars would be fine for me. Not that I'm rich, but I'm willing to pay that price for a bunch of very few rare origami publications. Anyone here who thinks she/he can help in sharing, please share my inquiry with others. If it's not a matter of money, I would also be very happy to exchange one-to-many with my several other origami books. Just a note about this topic (books/publications): I held back from sending these kinds of messages to the list, in the past, because I thought (and still think) these are interesting topics for a small part of the origamists only. And I didn't want to bother the list. Recently, I received only a few signs of interest for a separate group (focused to books/publications only). Too few, in my opinion, to give life to something that has a future, and certainly I don't want to promote any separation or "restricted" group, at all, and furthermore I'm also discontinuous in my activities, so it has to be a shared effort. So, please, keep contacting me privately, if interested in discussing about collecting books, as we can sort out a proper solution (such as a public FB page which anyone can consult, without having the email inbox flooded). Regards, Lorenzo On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 16:44, Anne LaVin via Origami < origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 8:22 AM Lorenzo via Origami < > origami@lists.digitalorigami.com> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> happy new 2023 (or Guten Rutsch, as they say in Germany). >> >> Do any of you know who owns the Convention book from the 1st Tanteidan >> Convention in 1995? >> If you have any hint for me, where to search / who to ask... it'd be very >> appreciated. >> > > This book is long (looooong) out of print, was privately printed (no ISBN) > and had a small production run. It is quite rare, in other words. A copy > has occasionally been sold (for, as I recall, several hundred dollars) when > auctioned a couple of times at Tokyo Tanteidan conventions in the past. > > Wishing I owned a copy, myself! > > I wonder if the Tanteidan powers-that-be could be persuaded to re-issue > it, and/or its similarly out-of-print siblings... > > Anne > > -- Lorenzo Lucioni Duesseldorf - DE lorenzo.luci...@gmail.com
